How to create a SAMBA share? [SOLVED]

[luis.nando]

Well, since I managed to fix (with the help of the community) the plymouth, the next problem I see with my system is how to create a samba share... I have a Wii wich I use to see movies OTA connected with a samba share on my windows 7 machine. I used to do the same with a ubuntu machine, but since Ubuntu became so slow on a Compac i decided to go back on Windows 7. How to do this on a LMDE machine? The nautilus-share package doesn`t solve the problem... any help here?

[Halzen]

I'm not familiar with SAMBA myself, but a little Googling led me here: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/samba.htm

[altair4]

The nautilus-share package doesn`t solve the problem... any help here?

LMDE has a few things disabled by default so you need extra steps to get get it to work for either Nautilus-share or Classic-share. You might want to go through this first. From Simple File Sharing in Mint:http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=23169

Linux Mint Debian Edition Preliminary Steps

Step 1: "Guest Access" option is disabled by default. To enable it:

Open smb.conf as root:

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gksu gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

Add the following lines to the [global] section:

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usershare allow guests = yes

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map to guest = Bad user

And restart samba:

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sudo service samba restart

Step 2: You do not have permissions to create a usershare because you are not included in the correct group.

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sudo gpasswd -a your_user_name sambashare

Step 3: Add samba client packages

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sudo apt-get install gvfs-fuse
sudo apt-get install libsmbclient
sudo apt-get install smbclient
sudo apt-get install python-smbc


Then add yourself to the fuse group:

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sudo gpasswd -a your-user-name fuse

Step 4: Logoff and Login again for all the group changes to take affect

If that doeesn't fix it then please post the output of the following commands:

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net usershare info --long

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testparm -s

[luis.nando]

First of all, thanks for the mint community, when I migrated from windows to Ubuntu and finally got unhappy with the last changes, I decided to migrate to Mint, wich has such a plethora of good intentioned users... So far, I`ve managed to fix the main problems to get the best experience on Linux....

Well, that suggestion didn`t work, when I try to access that same W7 machine my Wii does I get an error on Nautilus, like fail to recover list from server, the logs are:

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luis@luis-desktop ~ $ testparm -s
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)
Processing section "[homes]"
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[print$]"
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
[global]
   server string = %h server
   map to guest = Bad User
   obey pam restrictions = Yes
   pam password change = Yes
   passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
   passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
   unix password sync = Yes
   syslog = 0
   log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
   max log size = 1000
   dns proxy = No


But the net usershare didn`t give me any answer...

[altair4]

Ah, you're going in the other direction. When you mentioned nautilus-share I thought you were trying to create a share on Mint and access it from Windows. Does this look like the error you get when trying to access the Win7 machine:

Unable to mount location: Failed to retrieve share list from server

Run one more diagnostic and post the output:

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smbtree

In the mean time don't browse to the share. Access it by ip address. In a terminal:

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nautilus smb://192.168.0.100

Change 192.168.0.100 to the ip address of the Win7 machine

[altair4]

I'm shutting down for the day so I thought I'd leave you with a few things:

Hopefully accessing it by ip address has worked. If so you can bookmark it in Nautilus so you won't need to use the terminal any more. This does require that you have a static ip address on the Win7 box though.

If you still need to browse to the share then you could try these two modifications to smb.conf:

Add the following lines to the [global] section of /etc/samba/smb.conf:

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name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins

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client use spnego = no

Then restart samba:

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sudo service samba restart

[luis.nando]

Those last suggestions, solved the problem in both directions, W7 to LMDE and back.... Thank you!!!