Comments on: How to install Samba Server on ubuntu

By: Linux User

Linux User — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:23:14 +0000

Samba shared folders don’t work after reboot on buntu 10.04.

Here’s the solution:

Start the nmdb Samba service by typing (in a terminal window:

sudo nmdb

(type in password if necessary)

The one thing most of these tutorials forget is to tell us to start BOTH of the Samba services, (smdn & nmdb) and to configure them to autostart at boot. When you install Samba, the installation process starts the nmdb process, but the installer does not set up nmdb to autostart on a rebbot.

You can set everything up according to these tutorials, but once you reboot, your shared folders won’t work! (in Ubuntu 10.04). After hours of headache, I discovered that the “other” Samba service, that is never named in these tutorials, was not auto loading.

By: rao

rao — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:29:55 +0000

Its working thanks….

By: Wikenty

Wikenty — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 14:06:16 +0000

Thank you very much!!!

It works!

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:36:26 +0000

i’m getting error as i dnt have authority to download..
so other way round i have the

samba-3.5.2.tar.gz
samba-common_3.3.2-1ubuntu3.4_i386.deb
samba-dbg_3.0.22-1ubuntu3.11_i386.deb
samba_3.3.2.orig.tar.gz

so plz tell how to install using these jars.. or wht else i need..

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:58:19 +0000

while installing the samba server i’m gettin g error..
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-2.6.28-11 linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic
Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
samba-common smbclient
Suggested packages:
openbsd-inetd inet-superserver smbldap-tools ldb-tools keyutils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
samba smbfs
The following packages will be upgraded:
samba-common smbclient
2 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
Need to get 18.2MB of archives.
After this operation, 17.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Err http://in.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main smbclient 2:3.3.2-1ubuntu3.3
404 Not Found
Err http://in.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main samba-common 2:3.3.2-1ubuntu3.3
404 Not Found
Err http://in.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main samba 2:3.3.2-1ubuntu3.3
404 Not Found
Err http://in.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main smbfs 2:3.3.2-1ubuntu3.3
404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/smbclient_3.3.2-1ubuntu3.3_i386.deb 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/samba-common_3.3.2-1ubuntu3.3_i386.deb 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/samba_3.3.2-1ubuntu3.3_i386.deb 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/smbfs_3.3.2-1ubuntu3.3_i386.deb 404 Not Found
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with –fix-missing?

also if i’m having the samba-3.5.2.tar.gz at my home location so how do i install that and work..

By: rupali

rupali — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:47:16 +0000

Hi sir,

i m trying to configure samba. smb.conf i changes as follows
[global]
workgroup = R&D
wins support = yes
security = user
username map = /etc/samba/smbuser

/after that i create one directory as test
/[test]
path = /share/test
available = yes
browseable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
guest ok = no

after that much configuration i restart the samba.
but it will give me error as

\\linuxserver-ip\test is not accessible. You might not have permissions to use this network resources.Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permission.

i change the permission of test directory as 774.
Thanks in advance.

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By: admin

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:03:39 +0000

ray=”ray”

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:06:04 +0000

Nice and clear. The last line confuses me, though. My username is ray. What should I type?

ray = “samba username”
ubuntuusername = “samba ray”
ray = “ray”

Thanks!