Samba sharing error -

**marsters256** · September 4th, 2010

I can't share my /var/www folder on this machine - it worked fine on my Desktop, it just asked me to install the samba windows something.
What's going wrong with this.
I have searched for fixes to this issue with no luck.

Here is the error I get after right clicking and going to sharing and trying to share the folder...

Code:

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)
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[print$]"
Loaded services file OK.
WARNING: state directory /var/lib/samba should have permissions 0755 for browsing to work
WARNING: cache directory /var/cache/samba should have permissions 0755 for browsing to work

have tried

Code:

sudo chmod 0755 /var/lib/samba
sudo chmod 0755 /var/cache/samba

But no luck... Please help

**marsters256** · September 4th, 2010

Fixed it myself, thought I'd be nice and let you all know how I did it as per Ubuntu spirit.

Code:

sudo chmod 777 /etc/samba/smb.conf
sudo chmod 0755 /var/cache/samba
sudo chmod 0755 /var/lib/samba

added line

Code:

usershare owner only = false ## added by ben

to global settings in /etc/samba/smb.conf file...

If anyone knows why it didn't work straight away I'd love to know 'cas it worked on my desktop and I've updated ubuntu and restarted before I tried all this...

**dmizer** · September 5th, 2010

Impossible to know now. We would have needed to see what the permissions were before you changed them.

**marsters256** · September 5th, 2010

Would the best way to see that be doing a

Code:

ls -la

on the directory/files?

**dmizer** · September 5th, 2010

Originally Posted by marsters256

Would the best way to see that be doing a

Code:

ls -la

on the directory/files?

It will not matter because you have already changed them. You cannot see what they were before.

**CharlesA** · September 5th, 2010

I checked what the permissions were set to on my clean server install:

Code:

charles@atlantis:~$ ls -ld /var/lib/samba
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2010-09-04 22:43 /var/lib/samba
charles@atlantis:~$ ls -ld /var/cache/samba/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-09-04 22:43 /var/cache/samba/
charles@atlantis:~$ ls -l /etc/samba/smb.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12416 2010-09-04 22:43 /etc/samba/smb.conf
charles@atlantis:~$

So unless you changed the permissions somehow, they should have been fine by default.

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