samba sharing

[Mike McGinn]

I have been running Kubuntu and using Samba for over five years with no 
problems. I do not use the GUI tools to configure samba, I just edit 
/etc/samba/smb.cnf by hand.

Mike

On Friday, August 03, 2012 10:05:03 Errol Sapir wrote:
> Hi Leslie Anne
> We seem not only to share the frustrations with Samba but a past as
> well. I am very recently retired (this month) as the IT administrator of
> a high school's computers. The pension rules in this country (Israel) do
> not allow Town Councils to have people on their payroll after pension
> age. I was lucky to have my job extended by 2 years but now I am on
> pension. I hope to still find a job in my field and have actually been
> promised one. Anyway enough about that!
> I have also had the Samba problem for years (sometimes it shares,
> sometimes not) and I have always thought the problem was my not
> configuring samba correctly. From what you say there is no "correct" way
> of configuring Samba - at least in Kubuntu??? My friends say that Ubuntu
> Samba sharing works for them but I really like KDE.
> Anybody out there with solutions??
> 
> Errol
> 
> On 08/03/2012 04:24 PM, Leslie Anne Chatterton wrote:
> > Hi Errol,
> > 
> > I share your frustration!
> > 
> > Your problem with Samba is one I am very familiar with. It may be
> > related to the security concerns that are rightly front and centre in
> > Linux - or it may be my own failure to adequately master the extensive
> > documentation (or incompetence on the part of some of those who write
> > the code, but I'm not in a position to judge that).
> > 
> > I have tried (and failed) off and on for five years to try and get Samba
> > to work consistently on my home network of sometimes up to 10 machines,
> > including Android phones and tablets. Distributing the internet has
> > always worked very smoothly. Sharing files, not so much. I've pretty
> > much given up in favour of sneakernet. That which worked so effortlessly
> > in Windows seems to be impossible in Kubuntu. (MS seems to be ruining
> > even that in Win 7.)
> > 
> > When I asked for help, several times, in another 'buntu group the
> > attitude seemed to be "its not a feature I use" or "just type the IP
> > address in" - and even that didn't always work. I'm a great fan of
> > Linux, but that doesn't blind me to its shortcomings.
> > 
> > i have learned that Samba sometimes seems to spontaneously change the
> > smb.conf settings to remove the check mark from the requirement to use
> > encrypted encrypted passwords. This disables sharing with Windows. I've
> > also found that asking fora password is just another way of refusing
> > access. Sometimes just stopping and restarting the Samba service and
> > running winbindd (sic) as root gets it going. Using static IP's doesn't
> > seem to matter, in my limited experience. And the problem afflicts
> > sharing between Kubuntu systems too.
> > 
> > I just wish someone would fix Samba; simplify it greatly and make it
> > really easy to use. It suffers from a plague of "feature bloat". Many of
> > us would really appreciate a fresh approach for home users that may be a
> > little less secure but useful and foolproof. After all, we are not all
> > running major government departments, and if someone steals my vacation
> > photos I'm not going to go out of business! Wikileaks proved that...
> > 
> > Please understand, I'm not bashing Kubuntu or Linux. I use it daily and
> > love it. The only Windows I own came with the computer and I keep it for
> > the sake of the few bits of software that won't run under Wine and yet
> > are needed to set up or maintain things like eye.fi <http://eye.fi>,
> > Kobo etc. I detest the predatory policies of MS and consider it a third
> > rate operating system.
> > 
> > Many of us have been thoroughly frustrated by the problem of file
> > sharing for too long. Could we have a little help here?
> > 
> > Leslie Anne
> > Retired teacher of Computer Tech
> > 
> > Sent from my Nexus 7 tablet running Jelly Bean
> > 
> > On 3 Aug 2012 05:14, "Errol Sapir" <errol at tzora.co.il
> > 
> > <mailto:errol at tzora.co.il>> wrote:
> >     Hi All
> >     Before I pose my problem with Samba I would like to show/point out a
> >     strange/funny activity on the Kubuntu forum site.
> >     The site is:
> >     http://www.kubuntuforums.net/__content.php?s=__85a01516a6f19daf6d1150
> >     b684d239__d4
> >     <http://www.kubuntuforums.net/content.php?s=85a01516a6f19daf6d1150b6
> >     84d239d4>
> >     
> >     On the right hand side is a column. In the fourth article in that
> >     column is the title "upgrading. Next to that word there is an "ant"
> >     or some black insect running around. In the beginning I thought it
> >     was my screen but I checked this out on another computer and saw the
> >     same "insect". If it was a bug I report it to bugzilla but it is
> >     only an insect :)
> >     
> >     Now for my Samba problem. I want to share photos with other people
> >     in my family who use Windows. They are all in the same workgroup.
> >     The photos I want to share are on a separate disk to my Kubuntu
> >     installation but are totally visible on my computer. The photos I
> >     want to share have been copied to a folder called "public". All the
> >     members of my family "see" my computer but are asked for a user name
> >     and password. When trying all known user nams and passwords nothing
> >     happens. They cannot see the folder I try to share.
> >     I have tried endless configurations that I saw on the internet or in
> >     youtube but nothing helps. Is there a howto to solve this problem
> >     for me using Kubuntu. Most of the other suggestions are for Ubuntu.
> >     By the way I can see shared files from the windows computers. They
> >     cannot see my shares.
> >     TIA
> >     Errol
> >     
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