Reset / remove Samba share permissions?

[aquascrotum]

I have 2 drives shared via samba - I want to remove the share.

Nautilus doesnt show the folders as being shared for some reason, so I cant simply go into Nautilus "Sharing Options" and untick the shared box. I know the files are still beng shared though as I can view them in my network places and on a windows machine in my network.

Any ideas? Cheers

[Morbius1]

If you have a share named "documents" you can open a Terminal and type:

net usershare delete documents

EDIT: That deletes the share not the documents folder. Probably should have said that somewhere

The other way is to go back in nautilus, share it again, and then unshare it. I know that doesn't make any sense but there's a bug in nautilus where it forgets to add a "share" icon to the share folder after a reboot or logoff.

[Gone fishing]

Edit the samba conf

alt F2 then type gksu gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

and remove the share. Probably best to make a backup of the original smb.conf first just in case.

[Morbius1]

so I cant simply go into Nautilus "Sharing Options" and untick the shared box.

I believe the OP is using nautilus-share not Classic samba so the shares are not defined in smb.conf .

[mikewhatever]

Have you tried to log outand then login? Alternatively, have to tried reloading samba?

[Morbius1]

There is another possibility. You have shares defined using both methods - Classic and Nautilus. In which case you would need to use both my and Gone fishing's answers.

You should probably do Gone Fishing's first, then mine.

[aquascrotum]

Thanks for all the replies. I've no idea there were 2 methods to share and have no idea which I've used - apparently it was a fluke I had shares at all.

I tried


The other way is to go back in nautilus, share it again, and then unshare it.

with apparent success. Cheers!