[SOLVED] Samba error 255

[marcgh]

After installing samba, I wanted to share with other computers on the LAN and all in 'WORKGROUP' one file.

This is the error I got after right-clicking the file and allow access and Guest access:

'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error Permission denied
You do not have permission to create a usershare. Ask your administrator to grant you permissions to create a share.

What am I doing wrong? (I'm sure it's me!)
Thanks in advance for any advice.

[albinootje]

'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error Permission denied
You do not have permission to create a usershare. Ask your administrator to grant you permissions to create a share.


Can you post your /etc/samba/smb.conf ?

[marcgh]

Can you post your /etc/samba/smb.conf ?
Thanks albinootje for your concern.
I have found my solution in this link and my shares are now visible on my XP laptop.

http://linuxowns.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/share-ubuntu-folders-with-windows-samba/

Bedankt!

[albinootje]

Thanks albinootje for your concern.
I have found my solution in this link and my shares are now visible on my XP laptop.

http://linuxowns.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/share-ubuntu-folders-with-windows-samba/
Okay, cool!

Bedankt!

Geen probleem :)

[AMD XL]

The file manager that I am tiring to share is **** up.

See this

'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name "Everyone" to a SID. Invalid parameter.

How to

[jtpoole99]

The file manager that I am tiring to share is **** up.

See this

'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name "Everyone" to a SID. Invalid parameter.



I'm using nautilus and I'm having the same problem with sharing folders. This post says solved, but I don't see a solution anywhere...

[marcgh]

Hi,
Try this link : http://linuxowns.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/share-ubuntu-folders-with-windows-samba/

It solved the problem for me. Good luck.

[ojobson]

The suggestion of opening nautilus using sudo command to have higher permissions when enabling shares does not work for the error:

"'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name "Everyone" to a SID. The connection was refused. Maybe smbd is not running"

It is running because I can access the shares over smb.

anyone have a clue? Just upgraded to 10.04 and haven't a clue what's going on. All the commands for using samba seem to now not work. brilliant.

[johnyuan2000]

Hi, everybody !

The same here! it said [SOLVED] but the solution :


http://linuxowns.wordpress.com/2008/...windows-samba/ (http://linuxowns.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/share-ubuntu-folders-with-windows-samba/)did not work for me.

All I did was upgrade to 10.4 from 9 and all samba share dead and I kept getting Error message :


net usershare add: cannot convert name "Everyone" to a SID. Invalid parameter.Did anyone work around other than "nautilus root access" ???

any help would be appliciated !

John

[timfinley]

Hi, everybody !

The same here! it said [SOLVED] but the solution :

did not work for me.

All I did was upgrade to 10.4 from 9 and all samba share dead and I kept getting Error message :

Did anyone work around other than "nautilus root access" ???

any help would be appliciated !

John

Bump

Same for me

[luvshines]

I think these are 2 different errors we are talking about:

1. 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error Permission denied

2. net usershare add: cannot convert name "Everyone" to a SID. Invalid parameter.

For the first one, the fix is simple. Add the user to group 'sambashare'

sudo usermod -a -G sambashare <username>

This is because of this:


ls -ld /var/lib/samba/usershares/
drwxrwx--T 2 root sambashare 4096 2010-09-28 13:41 /var/lib/samba/usershares/


For the second one, can anyone tell me how to recreate it ??

[luvshines]

Yeah, one more thing. The additional group might not become active unless you logout and then login again

[HumanAnarchist]

I can still not solve this problem. Maybe it could be that the folder I am trying to share is on a NTFS partition, that is not auto mounted when the computer starts only when I access it through nautilus.

[HumanAnarchist]

this helped me https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/513427 ...
i think, not tried to access it from a win xp computer yet, but hopefully it will work :)

[masterlocdown]

I have tried this but kept getting the errors to repeat so this was what I ended up doing.

I opened up terminal and ran these commands:
sudo apt-get remove samba samba-common
sudo apt-get remove system-config-samba

I then restarted the computer and went ahead and installed the above again to make sure everything is working ok.

sudo apt-get install samba samba-common
sudo apt-get install system-config-samba

and then follow the rest from here:
http://www.n00bsonubuntu.net/content/install-samba-and-share-folders-ubuntu-10-10-maverick-meerkat/