Samba foldersharing in Dolphin or Nautilus [Solved]

[maulbongo]

Hi there,

I'm using Sabayon since a few days an I'm totally impressed. I switched from LinuxMintDebianEdition and made the experience, that Samba is not this well implemented in Sabayon, so here I wrote a howto, so you all can use this nice foldersharing way. Here is also a link to the wiki article, I created:

http://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Samba_foldersharing_in_Dolphin_or_Nautilus_the_smooth_way

1. make shure you have installed samba, kdenetwork-filesharing (for KDE SC) or nautilus-share (for Gnome)

2. open a terminal and become su

3. add a group called sambashare by running

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groupadd sambashare

4. add your user to the group sambashare

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gpasswd -a %username% sambashare

(where %username% has to be replaced with your username)

5. run these three commands:

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mkdir /var/lib/samba/usershares

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chgrp sambashare /var/lib/samba/usershares

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chmod 1770 /var/lib/samba/usershares

4. add these at the end of the [Global] section in smb.conf

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map to guest = bad user
usershare allow guests = yes
usershare path = /var/lib/samba/usershares
usershare max shares = 100
usershare owner only = false
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers

5. make sure all entries in

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/etc/samba/smbusers

are commented out

6. For sharing folders in you home folder, make sure that the homefolder of the user is readable to others, otherwise samba can't make the folders there accessable.

7. run

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rc-update add samba default

so the samba daemon is startet on systemstart (only if samba is not running at startup, for ubuntu or debian this should not be needed, but for Sabayon this is necessary).

8. And as some people will experience that after reboot the nmbd is not started and the shares are not shown you can add to the

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/etc/local.d/local.start

this

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/etc/init.d/samba restart

and if you still get problems using this you could try it with the sleep command to enshure that nmbd really can open a socket

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/bin/sleep 20 && /etc/init.d/samba restart

this lets the system wait for 20 seconds and then does the restart of the samba service.
You should find out what is the best time youself, for me the 20 seconds are good working.

9. And the

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/etc/hosts

should also be edited because the aliases are confusing smb.
So I changed it from

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# IPv4 and IPv6 localhost aliases
127.0.0.1   localhost sabayon %computername%
::1      localhost sabayon

to

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# IPv4 and IPv6 localhost aliases
127.0.0.1   localhost
::1      localhost

10. finally reboot, now you can use the foldersharing by rightclicking within Dolphin or Nautilus

[Fitzcarraldo]

Hello maulbongo, and welcome to the SL Forums. Nice to see you are posting some helpful information, but it would be better if you used the SL Wiki for these 'how to' threads and then just posted a link to your SL Wiki article in the SL Forums. That way your 'how to' articles will not get lost in the mists of time as new forum threads get added and your threads move down.

[maulbongo]

Hi there,

I found a problem, when doing all this stuff and I set a folder for sharing, I could connect to the host via smb but the folder was not shown.
so I tested arround with the /etc/hosts file and the command hostname -a gave me two aliases which were sabayon and my computername.
Then I edited the /etc/hosts from:

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# IPv4 and IPv6 localhost aliases
127.0.0.1   localhost sabayon %computername%
::1      localhost sabayon

to this:

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# IPv4 and IPv6 localhost aliases
127.0.0.1   localhost
::1      localhost

%computername% has to be changed to your computername without the two %

And after this all is working like a charme.

Can somebody please check this for confirmation, so I can edit the howto.

[maulbongo]

Awsome 59 Visits, but no answers.
I checked it myself with two other Installations ans can confirm, that this helped, so now I edit the howto.

[kage]

NICE

I also came from Mint and was have probs with samba / sharing
So I'll try your howto

Thnx a lot!