can't create Avahi share on Mint Mate 21 [SOLVED]

[CliveMcCarthy]

I went through my normal sequence to create a network share that I have often used with Avahi on Mate 20.3 and it failed with Mate 21.0. Here is the error displayed:

The filename is fine, with no illegal characters.

As a side note, it seems that /etc/samba/smb.conf no longer likes
client min protocal = NT1
server min protocal = NT1
Which were fudge fixes to open up the share in 20.3 I have removed these.

How do I now make an Avahi share ?

[altair4]

It's a bug in MATE: https://github.com/mate-desktop/caja-ex ... issues/111

I recommend creating shares using samba directly: PART 2: Creating a Samba Share Using Samba Directly

[CliveMcCarthy]

Thank you Altair. You always rescue me !

One of the reasons I gave up on Cinnamon 21 was I couldn't make an Avahi share.

The bug requiring:
client min protocal = NT1
server min protocal = NT1
is gone.

So now we have a new one !

Your note on setting up a shared folder slightly confused me because I didn't realize that the [Public] section delimiter was part of the naming for the share. Mine needed to look like this:

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[shared]
path = /home/clive/Desktop/shared
read only = no
force user = clive
guest ok = yes

[altair4]

The share in the HowTo was an example but yes the [XXX] header would be the name of the share the client would access.

[CliveMcCarthy]

It only slightly confused me. I thought Public was some kind of section reserved word.

[RowlandP]

It only slightly confused me. I thought Public was some kind of section reserved word.

No, you can have a share called 'Public', I think you are confusing it with the synonym of 'guest ok' which is 'public', just to explain this:

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public = yes

And

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guest ok = yes

Both mean the same and allow guest access, provided that 'map to guest = bad user' is set in [global].

Samba still allows 'client min protocol = NT1' and 'server min protocol = NT1', though they both now default to 'SMB2' if not set. This may change from Samba 4.17.0 when you will be able to turn off SMBv1 at compile time.