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  1. Bug #1261873
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 1261873

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Morbius1 (morbius1) wrote : Re: 'net usershare' returned error 255

In the "#======================= Share Definitions =======================" section of smb.conf exists the original [homes] share from Debian which looks like this but is scattered throughout the section:

[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = no
   read only = yes
   create mask = 0700
   directory mask = 0700
   valid users = %S

Ubuntu usually comments out this share but in this case it was incomplete. Only [homes], "comment = Home Directories", and "browseable = no" were commented out.

This leaves "read only = yes", "create mask = 0700", "directory mask = 0700" and "valid users = %S" intact and interpreted by samba as global parameters which makes a mess of things. In this particular bug report having "valid users = %S" interpreted as a global parameter induces the originally posted error message.

All of the [homes] share parameters must be commented out.