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I ran the script and I have a 'shutdown.txt' file. How do I upload it as an attachment?

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/mRfgGYYcwG/

Thanks. I uploaded the info to pastebin per the instructions.

My computer was working fine on 18.04. I installed the latest version, 22.04. Now, the computer shuts down unexpectedly.

Well, I haven't yet tried creating a local share, but I do have some more info to report. I found some info regarding accessing 'remote files' via LibreOffice. I selected the 'Windows Share' option...

Thank you for your reply. Your comments are helpful and lead me to suspect the problem lies with LibreOffice. I get your point about having all versions up to date, although I am reluctant to at the...

I am running a small office network on an Ubuntu server 18.04 with Samba. Most of the regular computers are Ubuntu, with one 14.04, one 16.04, four Linux Mint 18.04. There are two Win 10 computers...

I am managing a small medical office with 4 computers running Ubuntu 18.04. Performance issues (memory) began in late 2019. I've tried everything including trying different operating systems. I too...

This is part of an ongoing problem described in this closed thread:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2384576

The above actions re-established connection to the server. After some time...

Well, I've managed to solve the problem. Every time I rebooted a workstation, it lost connection to the server. This confirmed that the server was the problem and not the workstations.

I booted...

Thanks for you replies. Not sure how, but I've managed to solve the problem. I've posted my solution to the main thread.

Just found out that a second computer, laptop, is experiencing the same issue. So, 3 computers are fine, and 2 are unable to connect to the server, and are displaying the same message: can't read...

The server is Ubuntu 14.04
sda1 is ext2
sda5 is crypto_LUKS
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root TYPE="ext4"

Desktop computer with Ubuntu 16.04 has been connecting to ubuntu server 14.04 samba with no issues. Now, the shares cannot be mounted. Message says "can't read superblock." Other desktops with...

I want a script that mounts shares when connected to WiFi. To that end, I found this excellent article on the subject called: OnNetworkConnectionRunScript
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bab1:
Thanks for your help. Synchronizing the workstation uid/gid with the server was the issue. Everything is now working as it should be.
Regards,
jamarsh123

PS I don't know how, but this...

I don't know how to do it, but this thread can be marked as "solved."

This did the trick; thanks for your help

I found a tutorial with the following commands to change the uid/gid:


usermod -u <NEWUID> <LOGIN>
groupmod -g <NEWGID> <GROUP>
find / -user <OLDUID> -exec chown -h <NEWUID> {} \;
find /...

Thanks for patience; I think I'm getting it. There is only one user per computer. I was anticipating a time in the future when a workstation might be shared by more than one person.

There are...

So, sync all the Linux users across all the Linux hosts plus make sure that on the Windows machines the username and password is the same as the Linux users. Drop the idea of using fstab to mount...

How about this, adding both the uid and gid at mount time:


sudo mount -t cifs -o username=spa,passwd=none23,uid=1007,gid=100 //192.168.0.57/test /mnt/test

Would this solve the problem of...

Did you mean for this to be
path = /srv/samba/test ?


path = /srv/samba/public


I changed it to test.
On the server, I can log in as either spa or manager and create and delete files....

Output of getent group users


manager@ubuntu:~$ getent group users
users:x:100:manager,spa

How did you create these users and their primary groups?

I used the tool “adduser”. However, rather than add all users at the same time, as you recommend, I added the users for a particular group...