Linux-to-Windows file sharing

[StrayBit]

Thanks MOE-lnx for Howto: Easy Linux-to-Windows file sharing using thunar.

Everything went well until

Cannot modify the share:

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

even after I created user 'Everyone' with no password and removed a file in that folder owned by root.

The folder is in /home/bruce and I set all permissions to it and its contents to read-write.  Where do I go from here?

edit: sorry! I thought I was in the Networking area

[M0E-lnx]

Did you create a new user account ?

You shouldn't need to do that..
if you need any user accounts at all it should be in the samba server .. you can make these using this command

Code:

smbpasswd -a <your_user_name>

Try that and let me know

[StrayBit]

I had added user everyone.  I'll remove it.

Tried
smbpasswd -a bruce
and
smbpasswd -a everyone

no change.  And I did verify that smbd and nmbd were running.

[nightflier]

edit: sorry! I thought I was in the Networking area

Moved to appropriate location 

[M0E-lnx]

can you gimmie the details of what you're doing?
I just did this
Home -> create new directory ("net usershare")
right-click net usershare -> share -> apply -> Ok
everything works here.

At what point did you get this error?

[StrayBit]

Thanks nightflier.

~/grandfatherclock/ was created when I (as user) extracted grandfatherclock-1.0.1.tar.gz.  At the moment, it is the only folder in my home directory.

right-click  grandfatherclock -> properties -> share check all 3 boxes -> Apply -> "Share name too long. Some old clients may have problems to access it, continue anyway?" Ok ->

Cannot modify the share:

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

I also tried creating a new folder, on applying share, I got "Thunar needs to modify some permissions" (or some such) which I Ok'd then I get

Cannot modify the share:

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

[M0E-lnx]

I wonder where thie "Everyone" string is coming from...

[StrayBit]

That was appearing even before I created that user - in fact, that's why I did.

[M0E-lnx]

My wild guess is that there is something wrong with your samba setup... I've never seen that

[StrayBit]

I haven't found a method to mount the shares from Windows in VL6.  In 5.9 I used pyNeighborhood and vlsmbmount.  I do, however, have the Windows machine mounted via a cifs in fstab.  I'm starting another topic on nfs errors that I'm getting on both machines.

One possibility, I suppose, would be to reinstall 6.0.  One thing I noted with my 5.9 cd, however, was that every time I installed, I had a different set of issues - even on the same machine!

[newt]

May be totally irrelevant:
'Everyone' is a default group for most windows versions.  Perhaps this is somehow coming into play when trying to set appropriate network share persmissions on straybits system since his network contains windows workstations, but not on moe's which doesn't contain windows workstations (is that true moe?). Then again, maybe I'm wayyyyyy out in left field

[nightflier]

Not familiar with how Thunar interacts with Samba, but I did do some testing with vlsmbmnt in 6.0 Std. To make it work, I had to install "bind" and add or modify these files: http://cincinnatix.com/vectorlinux/nightflier/vlsmbmnt-files.tlz

[StrayBit]

I find that vlsmbmnt is allready installed.  Since I didn't see it in the menu, I had assumed it wasn't.

root:# vlsmbmnt
Rescan
Warning: Tried to connect to session manager, Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
Mounting [\\HUMAN\WinDos] at [/root/mnt/HUMAN-WinDos]
Thunar: Failed to connect to the D-BUS session bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

(thunar:21559): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Two different plugins tried to register 'TspProvider'.

(thunar:21559): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_add_interface_dynamic: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed

(thunar:21559): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_add_interface_dynamic: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed

\\HUMAN\WinDos is now installed mounted, vlsmbmnt message box did not reappear, and the command prompt did not return (I should have end the command with a '&'?

I also attempted to put it into the menu but the menu editor only showed half or less of the menu and the entry did not appear in it - perhaps I need to log out and back in?

Also, I find it odd that the Epson Stylus C60 attached to this machine (Compaq) is listed as being on Human???

[StrayBit]

I tried vlsmbmnt from the cli again, this time with out su.  Worked like it is supposed to with out the extra errors.  One nice thing is that the cli also reports what is happening.

[stretchedthin]

Sounds like you installed nightflyers package, otherwise you shouldn't have been able to launch vlsmbmnt at all without being root.
Looks like you were generating the same error I was.
It's easy to put nightflyers package into the filesystem, I made a video tutorial (because thats the way I roll)
http://www.opensourcebistro.com/Tutorial/VL60/Trouble-Shooting/sambafix/sambafix.htm
Hope it helps.
PS, I still was not able to get the thunar-shares-plugin to do it's thing.  So if you do let me know.
Ken