Ubuntu
samba package

  1. Bug #95460
  2. Comment #39

Comment 39 for bug 95460

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Gul Murjani (gul) wrote : Re: samba 3.0.24 on feisty is broken

I simply upgraded from Edgy to Feisty and lost the functionality of samba. And all I had was simple shares that were all public (security = share).

Now, a lot of posts mentioned that removing "msdfs proxy = no" from smb.conf did the trick. In my case, however, there was no "msdfs proxy = no" in my smb.conf file so I was stumped.

After fiddling and searching, I just added "msdfs proxy = no" in my smb.conf and restarted samba (sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart). And then I commented out "msdfs proxy = no" and restarted samba (I think I even had to restart Ubuntu itself).

And voila! It's now working. I can dupllicate the problem. If I uncomment "msdfs proxy = no" in my smb.conf and restart samba, it won't work. If I comment it out again, it works.

Although it got quite off topic, I agree with the comments on this post. This bug should have not come out with the release. Remember that I only used the auto upgrade process as suggested by Ubuntu (I didn't ask for it!).

But I'd have to agree with Chris: "That's the price of freedom, platform-independence and community-driven tests. I still think it's an affordable price." As a completely open source solution, UBUNTU rocks! However, if we want UBUNTU to be a replacement for MS Windows, then this is definitely not the right path.