Did you check our wiki?
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/File_sharing_between_Linux_and_Windows_machines_with_Samba_(NAS)

@ ZekeMX

Do you already manage to share those directories?

If so, what did you need to do to get it to work? 


(In reply to sturmvogel from comment #1)
> Did you check our wiki?
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/
> File_sharing_between_Linux_and_Windows_machines_with_Samba_(NAS)

ZekeMX wants his machine to act as Samba server, isn't that page only about setting up a client, or do I overlook something?

CC: (none) => marja11
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

It's been a long time, but in the past I've used mcc/network/sharing/
Share drives and directories with Windows (SMB) systems
to set up a samba server.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Ezequiel
Is this still an issue? If so, we may have to put it in ERRATA for Mageia 9.

(In reply to Lewis Smith from comment #4)
> Ezequiel
> Is this still an issue? If so, we may have to put it in ERRATA for Mageia 9.

Sorry for the long delay on the response Lewis

Yes this is still an issue, It doesn´t work out of the box.

To reproduce:

Install samba as well as samba-usershares to add the share folder to dolphin

Right click on a folder like your Videos folder and choose share, I got the next messageL

This folder cant´be shared because ´/var/lib/samba/usershares´ has its group owner inapropiately set to "usershares", wich is not allowed.

This error is caused by your distribution not setting up Samba share propertly, You can fix it yourself by chaning that folder´s group owner to "sambashares" and making yourself a member of that group. Then restart the system.


I checked to see if the group usershares existed and it only appears after installing the package samba-usershares

What I did is that I renamed group usershares to sambashares using groupmod -n sambashares usershares, once this group was renamed samba-usershares works fine.

After this change I gor a screen to create Samba password.

I think this should be changed on the samba-usershares package.

Setting for errata (to evaluate)

Bug header said Gnome, but per descriptions this seem to be not tied to Gnome.

CC registered maintainer for Samba.

CC: (none) => bgmilne, fri
Summary: Gnome Folder Sharing not working => Samba Folder Sharing not working
Keywords: (none) => FOR_ERRATA9

@Ezequiel
Your comment 5 is very helpful, and thank you for your suggestion. It certainly looks like a package installation issue.
Assigning to Buchan who maintains Samba. Upped the importance because it is rather basic that Mageia should easily share filestore with Windows.

Source RPM: (none) => samba-4.17.8-1.mga9.src.rpm
Assignee: bugsquad => bgmilne
Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Severity: normal => major
Priority: Normal => High

Please test next samba-4.17.8-2.mga9 and samba-usershares-4.17.8-2.mga9 update!

CC: (none) => geiger.david68210

Fixed?

Hello,

I think usershares should be installed bu default on all mageia 9 with plasma and have all foldersharing handy.

once usershares is installed I got the next message on a new fresh mageia 9 install.

This folder could not be shared because your user account does not have write permissions to /var/lib/shares/usershares

Once this is solved Mageia will be easy to share for new users.

Regards

For now, manual fix in Comment 5

Entered https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_9_Errata#Samba, pointing here.

Keywords: FOR_ERRATA9 => IN_ERRATA9

> I cannot share a folder in gnome.

IMHO, this should be tested/fixed by the GNOME maintainer.

It is a GNOME-specific feature that doesn't work.

> I right click on the Videos folder / properties / share /shared

In what program? Is this nautilus?

I don't have a "share" button/tab in the directory properties dialog in Nautilus.

> I got a window that says "Error while running /usr/sbin/fileshareset

This script is provided by drakxtools-backend, if you want this feature to work, please re-assign to drakxtools.

> Using Terminal y ran the command fileshareset --add /home/user/Videos
> I got error:
> /var/pool/samba
> /home/user/Videos
> Error: Can´t find samba init script

... and doesn't seem to have been updated since the switch to systemd :-(


> To be honest, I have never been able to share a mageia folder with windows. I have tried the Mageia Control Center option to share samba folders and even followed instructions on youtube to manual configure /etc/smb.conf

The simplest case is just sharing your home directory, just (as root)

# smbpasswd -a username

Then you can access //computername/username with your Samba username and password.

Beyond that, you would need to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf to create a share (looking at some of the examples, or reading the smb.conf man page), and configure user permissions on the shared directories appropriately.

> I think usershares should be installed bu default on all mageia 9 with plasma and have all foldersharing handy.

This again has nothing to do with the samba package itself. If you think it is required for plasma, then re-assign this bug to the task-plasma package.

> This folder could not be shared because your user account does not have write permissions to /var/lib/shares/usershares

It would appear that you need to be a member of the sambashares group to use this feature.

Use the Mageia Control Center to add yourself to the sambashares group, log out, log it, and try it again.

I'm not sure what else can be done from the samba package itself.

Status: NEW => NEEDINFO

This smb.conf file works great.

[global]
    workgroup = WORKGROUP
    server role = standalone server
    hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/16
    hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0
    browsable = yes
    create mode = 0777
    directory mode = 0777
    server string = Samba Server %v
    netbios name = ServerHome
    security = user
    map to guest = bad user
    name resolve order = bcast host
    dns proxy = no
    inherit permissions = yes
[Documents]
    path = /mnt/DataStore_1TB/Documents
    comment = Shared Documents
    browseable = yes
    public = yes
    writable = yes
    create mask = 0777
    directory mask = 0777
    inherit permissions = yes
[Videos]
    path = /mnt/DataStore_1TB/Videos/
    comment = Shared Videos
    browseable = yes
    public = yes
    writable = yes
    create mask = 0777
    directory mask = 0777
    inherit permissions = yes

Marking this as resolved

Status: NEEDINFO => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED