[b]SOLVED[/b] - Learning to share...

[SayCheeze]

I'm running Linux 17.2 Mint, and have a test MS server running 2003 server. Both belong to the same workgroup.

I've installed samba, or I think I have, plus I installed the GUI interface to allow me to share folders on the Linux PC.

As of now, I can't see either machine from either side, or at least their shares. I've shared a folder on each machine, but still no go.

This isn't mission critical. I'm just trying to hash it out in my head.

Does the Linux Box have to be running a server version of Mint?

What other parts should I be looking at?

Linux machine 10.0.0.1
MS machine 10.0.0.3

TIA

[jimallyn]

Does the Linux Box have to be running a server version of Mint?

No. That's the only part of your question that I know the answer to, though.

[phd21]

Hi "SayCheeze",

It would help to know more about your system setup. If you run "inxi -Fxzd" from the console terminal prompt, highlight the results, copy and paste them back here, that should provide enough information.

Out of curiosity, why have you setup and are running a MS Server, for what purpose(s)?

Also, you might consider upgrading to Linux Mint 17.3 using the Mint Update Manager.

Perhaps these links can help:

Samba
Fantastic, and I think easy, instructions on setting up "Samba" networking.
Samba - done the Linux way
by altair4 » Sat Dec 20, 2014 6:01 pm
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 10#p960482

Post: Simple file sharing is NOT simple - actually it can be
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 6#p1116982


Samba Server installation on Ubuntu 16.04
https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/sam ... ntu-16-04/

Samba Server Configuration in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
https://www.howtoforge.com/samba-server ... -14.04-lts

Samba/SambaServerGuide
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Samba ... erverGuide

How To Install and Configure Samba on Ubuntu 14.10
https://www.liberiangeek.net/2015/01/in ... ntu-14-10/

How to Create a Network Share Via Samba Via CLI (Command-line interface/Linux Terminal) - Uncomplicated, Simple and Brief Way!
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/How%2 ... ief%20Way!

Hope this helps ...

[SayCheeze]

Thanks for the links

I just dable with Linux. I have to run Win7 at the shop, and have a dual boot system. I have an older Dell Server, that has 2003 on it, and am thinking of using it for a Backup Server. I already have a NAS, but I thought why not use the box anyway. So while I have it, I thought I would try to learn how to share folders across OS's... There is really nothing on the server per se' short of the OS.

Here's my setup

System: Host: keepsake Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.8.2)
Desktop: Cinnamon 2.6.13 Distro: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela
Machine: Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P6T version: Rev 1.xx Bios: American Megatrends version: 0707 date: 08/18/2009
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7 CPU 920 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 21382.4
Clock Speeds: 1: 1600.00 MHz 2: 1600.00 MHz 3: 1600.00 MHz 4: 1600.00 MHz 5: 1867.00 MHz 6: 1600.00 MHz 7: 1600.00 MHz 8: 1600.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550] bus-ID: 02:00.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV710 GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV710/730 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4000 series]
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 02:00.1
Card-2: Intel 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.16.0-38-generic
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e800 bus-ID: 06:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 2500.5GB (2.2% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: ST2000DM001 size: 2000.4GB
2: id: /dev/sdb model: Samsung_SSD_850 size: 500.1GB
Optical: /dev/sr0 model: N/A rev: N/A dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 12x multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: N/A
Partition: ID: / size: 133G used: 51G (41%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 12.87GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 32.5C mobo: 32.0C gpu: 60.5
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 1917 psu: 0 sys-1: 998 sys-2: 1054
Info: Processes: 208 Uptime: 9 min Memory: 535.4/24361.8MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.4
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.11) inxi: 1.9.17

[SayCheeze]

Footnote: Over the weekend, I was trying to figure out, why I couldn't see shares. I changed something, and now I see this from the Terminal screen, when trying to update app's and such. Notice the first line, after the password prompt.

[sudo] password for phillip:
WARNING: Ignoring invalid value 'share' for parameter 'security'
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libuser1 python-libuser
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
caja-extensions-common libcaja-extension1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
caja-extensions-common caja-share libcaja-extension1
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 32 not upgraded.
Need to get 111 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,031 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

[austin.texas]

You have to be careful which instructions you read, because Samba usage has changed from Mint 17.2 to the current Mint 18.1
You can use this guide. HowTo: Samba Browsing Problems Checklist - by altair4

And more tips

[SayCheeze]

I also know I've screwed something up, because the software mgr, or synaptic mgr, takes 20 minutes to load up...

Is there a way I can just revert back the OS to Friday of last week, before I started to hack away at it with the file sharing stuff ?



Guess what? I just saw folders from the 2003 MS server from my Linux side of things on my box. Now if I can only clear up these system hangs like on Synaptic and such.

[austin.texas]

I also know I've screwed something up, because the software mgr, or synaptic mgr, takes 20 minutes to load up...

That would be best in a new thread, I think.
Include the results of

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inxi -r

and

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sudo apt-get update

[SayCheeze]

Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gezakovacs-ppa-trusty.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gezakovacs/ppa/ubuntu trusty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gezakovacs/ppa/ubuntu trusty main
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com rafaela main upstream import #id:linuxmint_main
deb http://extra.linuxmint.com rafaela main #id:linuxmint_extra
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ trusty partner
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/osmoma-audio-recorder-trusty.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/osmoma/audio-recorder/ubuntu trusty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/osmoma/audio-recorder/ubuntu trusty main
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wine-wine-builds-trusty.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/wine/wine-builds/ubuntu trusty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/wine/wine-builds/ubuntu trusty main

When I try to run apt-get update, I get these at the end.
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

And these at the beginning
WARNING: Ignoring invalid value 'share' for parameter 'security'

I'm running that update again, and now it will take 1/2 hour to run, while trying to read pkgs.. so I'm terminating it..

[austin.texas]

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

The lock error message could be due to having Software Sources or Synaptic open at the same time you are running the command sudo apt-get update.

Apart from that, you have 3 PPA's listed:
gezakovacs-ppa
osmoma-audio-recorder
wine-wine-builds
One of those could be causing the delay. I suggest opening the Software Sources program > click on PPA's, and disable those 3 PPA's temporarily. Then close the Software Sources program and in a terminal, run

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sudo apt-get update

to see if you get better performance.

[SayCheeze]

thanks Austin....

I'll give that a go tomorrow afternoon when I get back there.. as of right now, I can't get any updates, even using terminal...

Appreciate the help...

[altair4]

When I try to run apt-get update, I get these at the end.
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

And these at the beginning
WARNING: Ignoring invalid value 'share' for parameter 'security'

The highlighted line from your post is a legitimate Samba error but one which makes no sense since Samba isn't involved in any way with the "update" command you are trying to run.

I keep notes on things like this and there is one situation which I noted where this could happen and it's with the use of sudo. You would get that error message any time you invoked sudo to do anything. The problem was with a messed up package which you could remove since it's not required:

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sudo apt-get remove libpam-smbpass

I don't know if it will resolve all the issues you have listed but it's something you might want to check.

[SayCheeze]

When I try to run apt-get update, I get these at the end.
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

And these at the beginning
WARNING: Ignoring invalid value 'share' for parameter 'security'

The highlighted line from your post is a legitimate Samba error but one which makes no sense since Samba isn't involved in any way with the "update" command you are trying to run.

I keep notes on things like this and there is one situation which I noted where this could happen and it's with the use of sudo. You would get that error message any time you invoked sudo to do anything. The problem was with a messed up package which you could remove since it's not required:

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sudo apt-get remove libpam-smbpass

I don't know if it will resolve all the issues you have listed but it's something you might want to check.

Appreciate it. I'll run that command this afternoon when I get there. Fortunately Mint isn't my primary OS on this machine.

[phd21]

Hi "SayCheeze",

You are welcome for the links, and I have a new one below.

I have been following your post and the good replies to it. Here are my new thoughts on this as well.

1.) I just noticed from the results of you running the "inxi -Fxzd" console terminal command, that you, or someone else, installed a 32-bit version of Linux Mint when your computer is a really nice 64-bit computer (Quad core Intel Core i7 CPU 920)? I would backup (or copy) anything you want to save on the current system to an external drive, and install a 64-bit version of Linux Mint over the current one (takes about 16 minutes or less), then copy back the files. I would highly recommend that you install a Linux Mint version 17.3 or version 18.1 (64-bit).

2.) Whenever I have a problem running an update or installing something in Linux Mint, like the messages you recently posted, I will restart my computer and run the commands below from a console terminal prompt which will normally correct those issues. The locking messages are usually due to someone trying to install or update something from a console terminal command while the Software Manager or Synaptic Package Manager (SPM) is running or the Mint Update Manager is running, or visa-versa. You cannot have more than one installation or update process running at the same time.


sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get install -f


3.) Another good article Link for Samba that I got in my email yesterday.

Create a Shared Directory on Samba AD DC and Map to Windows/Linux Clients – Part 7
* Note that this is part 7 (meaning there are links to other related articles)
http://www.tecmint.com/create-shared-di ... s+Guide%29

4.) You can use Linux Mint as a professional photographer (or any other business or profession) for personal or for business. There are numerous posts in this forum regarding that, if you search for them. If you ask, we can provide some for you.

Best regards,
Phil
phd21

[SayCheeze]

Greetings all. We'll I think she's on the mend.

I ran this command... "sudo apt-get remove libpam-smbpass" and she ran through it, without a hiccup. I rebooted, and things seem more stable now. Of course I can't see the WIN2003 Server, but that's not a problem, since I was just trying to learn Samba, and sharing. No real need to connect to it.

I'll consider that upgrading to a newer flavor of Mint as well. I installed this version over a year ago, and was just winging it. I know enough now to be dangerous as you can see...

There isn't anything on the Mint side of things that I need on this dual boot. All my real data is on a different physical drive on, and on a NAS and off site as well on a server.

Appreciate the help guys... I'm not going to mark this solved JUST yet, but will after I'm sure we're rolling like it should.