SAMBA Issues again

[firestomper41]

Hi all,

So i recently installed fresh copy of mint 20.2 on a pc and have it connected to network (wireless), then want to use it as file server/media server. So installed samba, right clicked folders that wanted shared in nemo and shared, but alas the machine can be seen on the network, but when you try open, just get the famous unable to mount location, failed to retrieve share list from server:connection timeout!

Now this is trying to connect from another mint pc (also on 20.2) that have on the network! Can anyone tell me why in 2020 file sharing even amoung 2 linux pc's this is still an issue!! Also what convoluted configurations do i need to change on the pc for it be be accessible?

[donten]

So i recently installed fresh copy of mint 20.2 on a pc and have it connected to network (wireless), then want to use it as file server/media server. So installed samba, right clicked folders that wanted shared in nemo and shared, but alas the machine can be seen on the network, but when you try open, just get the famous unable to mount location, failed to retrieve share list from server:connection timeout!

Did you reboot after you set the shared folders?

Take a look here: Samba shares not working from SSD in De ... er/folder) and here:

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[firestomper41]

This is what am getting at. Why should we have to resort to fiddling in the samba .conf file for hours on end! When will this bug be fixed??

[altair4]

Not sure it requires hours of configuring smb.conf. In fact you don't have to edit smb.conf at all. You just need to access the server and it's share directly.

Anyhoo, to answer your more philosophical question: When will this bug be fixed??

THe "bug" in this case is for one Linux machine to access another Linux machine using samba without SMB1 - graphically. The "bug" will get fixed when the Gnome developers hire a samba subject matter expert because the problem isn't samba it's Gnome.

To illustrate I boot up Mint20 Cinnamon and share my public folder using nemo. The share definition looks like this:

tester@vmint201cinn:~$ net usershare info --long
[Public]
path=/home/tester/Public
comment=
usershare_acl=Everyone:F,
guest_ok=y

I didn't do anything with smb.conf on this system. It is running with defaults.

Next I boot into Kubuntu20, Open the File manager > Network > Shared Folders ( SMB) and:

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When my server is selected I can see the share and can access it:

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Mind you it wasn't always like this with KDE and software development being what it is it may all go to hell with the next update but at the moment it looks like KDE spent some time with this and Gnome did not.

I should also note that MacOS has no issues access this share graphically either.

[firestomper41]

Ok many thanks for that, and funny enough i stumbled upon the command via nemo as when tried to share folder came up with some error and saying about the net usershare commnad, so went to command line and tried entering manually and playing around, and it worked. I can access the folder in windows by typing in ip address and then i see the folders. But now this is all great and all, cause under windows you can just right click and pin the server. But sadly cant do that in linux with nemo cause i ain't gonna remember what the ip address is of that machine in 2 weeks or a month from now when i do want to access a file on there

also it is about making the machine universally accessible to all devices on the network (phones, tablets, watches etc..) but without having to type in the ipaddress each time and just having the device discovered

[altair4]

Linux, MacOS, and Windows 10/11 all use mDNS so you don't need to remember the ip address. All you need to remember is the host name of the machine, attach a .local at the end of it and access it that way.

[firestomper41]

ok so now that have share, cant seem to figure out command to make folder writeable with net usershare

[altair4]

It is not at all clear to me why you are making this way more difficult by using net usershare.

This will reproduce what Nemo does all by itself:

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net usershare add %n %f "" Everyone:F guest_ok=y && chmod 777 %f

Where:

%n == name of the share
%f == file path

[firestomper41]

net usershare add : cannot convert name "Everyone" to a SID. An invalid combination of parameters was specified

[altair4]

Post the output of the following command:

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testparm -s