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Apparently I spoke a few minutes too soon. I forgot to add users to Samba with smbpasswd. Everything appears to be working now; please disregard.

Well, I hate to revive an old thread, but I just got around to installing 16.04 and I cannot get the Samba share working. Would it be best to revive this thread or start a new one?

Got it. I'll mount to /srv/netdrive when I install 16.04.

Everything seems to be working quite well now. Thanks for committing so much time to helping me fix this Samba share. I will probably be...

Enlightening, thanks for the clarification! Here is the output of the ls command:


ian@ian-UbuntuServer:~$ ls -l /media/netdrivetotal 320
drwxrwsr-x 4 ian users 4096 Jun 11 2014 Audiobooks...

ian@ian-UbuntuServer:~$ ls -l /media/netdrivetotal 320
drwx--Sr-x 4 ian users 4096 Jun 11 2014 Audiobooks
drwx--Sr-x 3 ian users 4096 Oct 31 11:01 Backup
drwx--Sr-x 3 ian users ...

Sorry, yes, the creation date is not recent. I just uploaded a random PDF from my computer and changed the name thinking that the user I connected with would have ownership. I didn't think to make a...

Here is the output from the two ls commands. Note that the file Test.pdf was added by me after connecting to the share right before my last post.


ian@ian-UbuntuServer:~$ ls -l /mediatotal 8...

Yes, it did leave the old smb.conf I believe. Here it is in it's current form:


## Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux.
#
#
# This is the main Samba...

Here are the results from both after purging but before reinstalling, just in case that's relevant:


ian@ian-UbuntuServer:~$ ls -l /etc/samba
total 40
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 Aug 10 2015...

I say that sounds like a good plan. Thanks so much for your guidance. I will have to give this a try tomorrow evening and report back. Should I use this to do the purge?


sudo apt-get remove...

lp_load_ex: refreshing parameters
Initialising global parameters
rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)
Processing section "[global]"
WARNING: The "syslog"...

The install seemed to work. The new output for dpkg -l cifs-utils:


Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/...

I should note that the _MSBROWSE_ bit appears to have some strange characters that did not make it over via copy and paste. I have attached a screenshot.



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Interesting. I'm learning a lot today.

I ran smbtree -d3 again and got the exact same results. I saw the "Permission denied" line and tried sudo smbtree -d3. Results were the same but without the...

Scratch that, avahi is what I was thinking of and avahi-daemon appears to be installed already. Netatalk is for implementing AFP which I definitely don't want to do.

Hmm... okay, interesting development: I tried connecting via Go > Connect to Server in Finder, which allows me to specify the address (smb://10.0.1.12). This accepted my credentials and mounted the...

Wow, no kidding, it must have really messed things up. I have heard elsewhere that the GUI utilities for Samba are not great. Now I know for sure I guess.

Here is my current smb.conf based on your...

Sure, here is my /etc/samba/smb.conf:


[global]
netbios name = netdrive
server string = Samba file server
workgroup = Workgroup
security = user
hosts allow = 127. 192.168.0.
interfaces =...

Oh, just kidding. I remembered your suggestion about the user-group users right after posting:



Both user accounts have now been successfully added to the group users per the instructions you...

Okay, on the 15.10 server this evening, I have:

Removed the old "smbuser" user account, both from the system and from smbpasswd
Added a user for the other human
Added both human users to...

I do have a question about this. With only two users and no real need for each to have private home directories on the share, how should I go about setting up groups? That is, do I need any new...

Yes, the data on this RAID 1 has always been backed up on multiple other locations. The important stuff has been, anyway. It was an experiment that turned out to be unnecessary. I will be duplicating...

After some research... would this be sufficient to remove samba + config files and get me back to a starting point?


sudo apt-get remove --purge samba

Also, I'm curious to know if the...

Thank you so much for your thorough response!



I do have a Windows install that I boot into sometimes. Ideally yes, it would be able to access this share as well. If it's apples to oranges,...

Hello!

I need some advice on setting up a home server with a file share.

What I Have Now
I currently have an Ubuntu 15.10 Desktop machine set up like this:

System installed on small SSD
...