Help with Samba in Ubuntu 15.04!

[Jason Sauders]

P.S. forgot to mention. The "system - administration - samba" piece refers
to where you could locate the program to open it. This is from the old
gnome 2.x days though and no longer applicable to unity. I meant to include
that in my above response.

-J
Sent from my Android
On May 8, 2015 8:01 AM, "Jason Sauders" <jasauders at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just checked on my 15.04 install for this package. I did notice an issue
> with this package on 15.04 though. I tried to launch it via terminal and
> the error output mentioned no such file or directory at /etc/libuser.conf.
> I simply ran "touch /etc/libuser.conf" as root, then re-ran
> "system-config-samba" in terminal as root to bring up the samba interface.
> After creating that libuser.conf file, the GUI came up fine, however I had
> to launch it via terminal. In my 3 minutes of tinkering I have not been
> able to bring it up via the dash menu.
>
> The system-config-samba tool is nice. It does a direct edit to the samba
> file. This made it easy for me to learn, as I could make GUI changes, then
> look in the config file to see what's changed. Once I got the hang of it I
> just began writing my own smb.conf file. Makes it easy to back up and
> restore to your system if you ever redo it. The smb.conf man page (man
> smb.conf) provides far more samba functionality than the
> system-config-samba utility, however that little GUI utility is often "just
> enough" to do exactly what most people need.
>
> Hope this helps!
> -J
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 07 May 2015 11:13:32 -0400
>> Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net> wrote:
>>
>> > So, I decided to ditch Mint and come back to Ubuntu GNOME 15.04.  It's
>> > got a number of features I like and with the addition of just two
>> > extensions (Frippery panel favorites and system-monitor) I have a very
>> > nice desktop.
>> >
>> > But, I share out some directories on my local harddrive to my family
>> > for storage, etc. using Samba and I just can't figure out how to make
>> > this work anymore on this version of Ubuntu.
>> >
>> > Does anyone have any up-to-date documentation on this?  I found
>> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Samba/SambaServerGuide but it seems
>> > outdated.  I can't seem to access the system-config-samba tool at all.
>> >
>> > The package is installed, but I can't even find it!  Searching for
>> > "system", "admin", or "samba" doesn't show anything interesting.
>> >
>> > The web page above says it should be available in "System -
>> > Administration - Samba", but I can't figure out what that means.  If I
>> > open the "All Settings" window I don't see anything about
>> > "Administration" or "Samba" under the "System" section at the bottom.
>> > There's a "Sharing" icon but it refers to sharing screens or using DAV
>> > to share files, not Samba.
>> >
>> > If I try to run "system-config-samba" from the CLI it complains that I
>> > don't have permissions to execute /usr/bin/pdbedit.  If I try to run
>> > "sudo system-config-samba" it gives me warnings that the owner of
>> > ~/.config/ibus/bus is not root, then a system error that it could not
>> > open configuration file "/etc/libuser.conf", no such file or
>> > directory.
>> >
>> > I realize there's the "Local Network Share" option in nautilus but my
>> > configuration is more complex than that.
>> >
>> > Am I being oblivious or should I file a bug?
>>
>> This isn't exactly what you asked for, but if you want to administer
>> samba without editing the config manually, you could take a look at
>> webmin. It lets you do administration of a lot of different services,
>> including samba, through a nice web GUI. Instructions for adding their
>> Debian repository are at:
>>
>> http://www.webmin.com/deb.html
>>
>> These instructions also work fine for Ubuntu. You could also just
>> download the .deb, but enabling the repository gives you automatic
>> updates.
>>
>> Also, if you have problems running something with sudo, try "sudo -i".
>>
>> Petter
>>
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