I'm also having problems with a new install of 14.04 desktop. I'm a novice to Ubuntu. I have another pc running 14.04 Studio and it works fine with my windows network.
I did the following:
[quote="ronnbot, post:8, topic:1301"]
Started fresh by removing samba:
sudo apt-get autoremove samba samba-common
sudo apt-get autoremove system-config-samba
Reinstall samba:
sudo apt-get install samba samba-common
sudo apt-get install system-config-samba cifs-utils
I copied smb.conf.default (thanks cariboo907 for the link) into /etc/samba/smb.conf
I could not save the smb.conf file as I get a red banner stating that I don't have permission to change a read only file. In both the /usr/share/samba, and /etc/samba
Then I launched the samba app to set my samba user but this will not work in Unity Dash (it does not show the application "samba" and the samba configuration tool does not open).
I also could not get all the files. I read in another forum that you could do the following:
First, check your machine is fully updated. Open command line (Ctrl + Alt + F1): or in my case (Ctrl + Alt +T)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
If you get any errors, run:
sudo apt-get install -f
Then rerun to first two commands to ensure no further errors. After that you can try logging in (Ctrl-Alt-F7 to change to you GUI) to see if Unity is now working.
If Unity is still not running, follow these instructions to reset your unity configuration, (from How do I reset my Unity configuration?):
With 14.04 install unity-tweak-tool:
sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool
Then run the follow command to reset Unity to defaults:
unity-tweak-tool --reset-unity
(In my case Unity started working after 14 files either updated or were added. The Samba server configuration GUI started working and I can add shares. I can "see" the network from the Ubuntu-desktop pc but the pc is not named and a "smb-server" is listed. I can see and log into shares for the Win7, Win8 and the other Ubuntu-Studio pcs. I can't "see" the Ubuntu-desktop pc from anywhere on the network!)
My configuration files reside only in (no /var/lib/samba
), the shares, located in /var/lib/samba/usershares
, and look similar to this:
VERSION 2
path=/home/Desktop/vaio
comment=
usershare_acl=S-1-1-0:F
guest_ok=y (mine had an n which I changed to a y)
sharename=Public
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Revision to original post:
After changing different parts of the OS for about a week and continuously getting internal error messages, I decided to wipe out the OS install and start over. I reloaded everything again and added samba but could not get Unity Dash and the GUI with the Samba server configuration to work again even though samba showed to be installed.
I surfed and finally ran across an article: