[ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[Simon Greenwood]

On 3 March 2011 11:01, John MM <scoundrel50a at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/03/11 09:22, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
>
>> On 03/03/11 08:51, John MM wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> what is smbtree?
>>>
>>>
>> Open a terminal and type "man smbtree"
>>
>> NAME
>> smbtree - A text based smb network browser
>>
>> SYNOPSIS
>> smbtree [-b] [-D] [-S]
>>
>> DESCRIPTION
>> This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.
>>
>> smbtree is a smb browser program in text mode. It is similar to the
>> "Network Neighborhood" found on Windows computers. It prints a tree with all
>> the known domains, the servers in those domains and the shares on the
>> servers.
>>
>> Al
>>
>
> Um, ok 'man' has been proven to be difficult to understand even by the best
> of you, it isnt written for newbies, and I look at it, and it makes
> absoluteluy no sense to me at all.
>
> Why the sarcasm, all I have done is ask a question based on this thread? I
> wasnt being nasty. So why the attitude?
>
> The sarcastic answer still doesnt help, how can I use smbtree to help me.
> You were going to help the OP, what is different with my question? I have
> found out more in htis thread, than at any other time, when I have asked
> similar questions about error 255, but the thread stopped, and has gone
> nowhere. So I know there is an answer there somewhere. I just wondered if
> somebody could help,
>
> Thank you.
>
>
A quick Google would also show that there isn't much more to know than what
is in the man page. Smbtree prints a list of available servers and devices
in your domain in the same way as Network Neighborhood does in Windows, but
it does it on the command line, through Terminal in Ubuntu. If you have a
use for that, then use it. If you don't, and unless you have machines that
have SMB shares that don't have some kind of GUI, then you probably don't.

In my experience, if you don't get an answer to a question on a mailing list
or forum it's because no-one reading has an answer. This is just a fact of
life. However, if you google 'samba error 255 ubuntu' you will find a lot of
data relating to the problem that causes it. It appears to relate to
permissions on /var/lib/samba/usershares.

s/

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