messed up samba

[ubunterooster]

Trying to get a share going with Vista and 7, I messed something up and decided that I would delete the samba.config file and once I started samba again the file would be remade. This did not work and after trying to pruge and reinstall samba which did not work, I deleted the etc/samba folder. This still did not work.


So.... how do I recover from this?

Samba's testparm returned error 1: Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384)
params.c:OpenConfFile() - Unable to open configuration file "/etc/samba/smb.conf":
No such file or directory
Error loading services.

[luvshines]

See if you have a default copy(comes with samba-common) of smb.conf at this location

/usr/share/samba/smb.conf

[ubunterooster]

Okay, I took that and copied it to the place where it should be.

[ubunterooster]

Okay, I can now tell Samba to share a folder but when I do it flickers, and when it comes back, the "share" option is deselected

[Morbius1]

I hope you don't mind the interruption but what are you using to share - Nautilus or some specific samba GUI app?

[ubunterooster]

I am using nautilus-share

[Morbius1]

Why not post the output of the following commands so folks on this thread can see how things are configured:

net usershare info --long

testparm -s

Also run the following command and see if you are a member of the sambashare group:

id

[ubunterooster]

ubunterooster@mountaindew:~$ net usershare info --long
ubunterooster@mountaindew:~$

Okay; nothing there

ubunterooster@mountaindew:~$ testparm -s
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384)
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[Backup]"
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
[global]
    server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
    encrypt passwords = No
    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
    usershare allow guests = Yes
    panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d

[printers]
    comment = All Printers
    path = /var/spool/samba
    create mask = 0700
    printable = Yes
    browseable = No

[Backup]
    comment = Shares
    path = /media/Backup
    read only = No
    guest ok = Yes
ubunterooster@mountaindew:~$

ubunterooster@mountaindew:~$ id
uid=1000(ubunterooster) gid=1000(ubunterooster) groups=1000(ubunterooster),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),46(plugdev),111(lpadmin),119(admin),122(sambashare),126(libvirtd),1004(smbshare)
ubunterooster@mountaindew:~$

[Morbius1]

Aside from one mistake in your copy of smb.conf:

encrypt passwords = No

That should be changed to Yes

It's not apparent that anything is wrong with that.

After you copied the smb.conf file did you restart samba:

sudo service smbd restart

[ubunterooster]

After changing that to yes, I restarted smbd and then the computer.

I can see the shared folders but am unable to connect:
"Unable to mount location
Failed to mount Windows share"