KDE and Samba.

[pmithrandir]

Hello,

I would like to know if mageia is able to share folder with samba on KDE.

If you click right on a folder in KDe, you can select "share" and normally when you validate, the folder should be shared on samba network.

I tried, but it was not a success. The folder doesn't appear in MCC samba section.

Do you know if it should works, and if there is something to do to enable it ?

It would be much more quick to share stuff for me.

Thanks
Pierre

[wintpe]

as Unix, and Linux have multiple ways to share fles, I cant see why any single right click share should imply samba.

Ive not noticed this option before except in kde3 when there was a utility that did link to samba (forgoten its name).

but unix is more likly (commonly) to share via NFS than samba.

thats bcause in NFS there is a common UID shareing system available, ie NIS or ldap.

sharing across samba requires that samba is either registered with a domain controller via "net join"

or a mapping of users is setup in unix passwd and smbpasswd.

otherwise all sharing is anonymous, and no access controls.

regards peter

[pmithrandir]

I think KDE explicitly said it is samba sharing...

[doktor5000]

What do you get when you run

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kcmshell4 'fileshare'

in a terminal as normal user?
Is there a Samba or NFS server installed and running on your box?

[wintpe]

ok well we all learn something new,

so as long as the services are running theres some integration

between kde and those services.

regards peter

[doktor5000]

so as long as the services are running theres some integration between kde and those services.

Well, better make that "there should be integration" ...

[pmithrandir]

What do you get when you run

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kcmshell4 'fileshare'

in a terminal as normal user?
Is there a Samba or NFS server installed and running on your box?

Hello, I get that :

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[pmithrandir@portablePierre ~]$ kcmshell4 'fileshare'
Impossible de trouver le module « fileshare ». Regardez kcmshell4 --list pour obtenir la liste de tous les modules.


And in the available module, nothing close to file share.

Thanks for your help
Pierre

[doktor5000]

Did you install from LiveCD or DVD?

[pmithrandir]

I installed it from live CD mageia 1, went to cauldron, and finally on mageia 2.

Is there any package to install ?

[doktor5000]

Try to install task-kde4 (make sure to set the filter in software management to "All" instead of "Packages with GUI")
It will give you a full KDE install, as there's just not enough place on a CD for that.

This can also be used to add KDE handbooks and some widgets when you've done a default install from DVD.

[pmithrandir]

This package is already installed... and there is another one task-KDE4-minimal installed also.

[pmithrandir]

Hi,

Do you have any other idea on how to make it works ?

Pierre

[doktor5000]

Do you have the package samba-server and/or nfs-utils installed and did you try to setup an SMB/NFS share via MCC?

[pmithrandir]

Hello,

As I said, I'm able to share some forlder with MCC, but my question was to be able to do it from KDE directly.

Right click on a folder
properties
Share
Share with Samba.

When I do that, KDE seems to do it, but it's not possible to see it with other shared folder.

[pmithrandir]

some result with dolphin launched from konsole.

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dolphin(7682) KSambaSharePrivate::add: We got some errors while running 'net usershare add' ("usershare", "add", "Documents", "/home/pmithrandir/Documents", "", "Everyone:r", "guest_ok=n")
dolphin(7682) KSambaSharePrivate::add: "net usershare: usershares are currently disabled



[doktor5000]

When I do that, KDE seems to do it, but it's not possible to see it with other shared folder.

Can you please explain what you mean by the last part?

[pmithrandir]

I mean that I get no error message from KDE saying there is an issue (in GUI part I mean, because in konsole, I get the last message).

The folder is displayed with a little earth on it, so it seems that KDE has started to share it.

But If I'm browsing from another computer, I can't see it. There is only the folder I set up in MCC.