Loki Samba won't start

I have Samba installed, but, when I click on the icon, it asks for my password, I enter it, and then nothing happens. I can not configure, i.e. set up files to share.

Any advice is appreciated.

 

Try start it from the terminal and see what comes out.

also check: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/H...rminal) - Uncomplicated, Simple and Brief Way!

 

I tried that set of instructions, but, no luck.

I may have to try again.

 

There´s a list of samba gui here ou may find some of them in the app store: https://www.samba.org/samba/GUI/

 

Before using graphical interfaces, it makes sense to do a little test on the command-line

start with the command smbtree ... don't give a username/passwd, just press enter
do you see the share ?
If not: is your firewall configured correctly ?

after that:

smbclient -U <username> //<server>/share

Can you login, do you see files with dir or ls ?

Try it graphically, if you are using Files, is gvfs-backends installed (it should be, it's installed by default)

 

And btw: i do prefer mounting samba shares without the graphical interface.
First create a file like /etc/samba/credentials.txt put 2 lines in it:
username=...
password=..
After that, change the permissions on this file:
chmod 400 /etc/samba/credentials.txt

Now create a mountpoint:

mkdir /mnt/share1

Create a file: /etc/systemd/system/mnt-share1.mount

[Unit]
Description = samba share data1
Requires = remote-fs.target

[Mount]
Where = /mnt/share1
What = //server/share
Type = cifs
Options = defaults, credentials=/etc/samba/credentials.txt

[Install]
WantedBy = default.target

Note: the filename == sharename,, replacing / with a -

After that: systemctl start mnt-share1.mount
check: findmnt -D /mnt/share1
Enable at boot: systemctl enable mnt-share1.mount

 

Thanks for the feedback. I tried several sets of install instructions, but, the one that worked best (for me) is the following.
http://entornosgnulinux.com/2015/06/14/samba-en-elementary-os-freya/

This involved the installation of Nautilus and it provided the option of installing a samba program.

Are there any issues with Nautilus that I should be aware of? Negative issues, I mean.

As an aside, the instructions are in Spanish, is there a way to get ASCII codes in Elementary Linux?

 

I tried that set of instructions, but, no luck.










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