[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#702840:

[Andrew Kane]

re-sent; prior reply sent to wrong address

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> wrote:

> severity -1 normal
> tags -1 moreinfo
> thanks
>
> You have not described a data loss bug.  Please don't overinflate bug
> severities.
>

Sorry about that. I'll do better in future.


>
>
> You say that you're trying to set up a share for guest access.  What is
> the
> setting of 'usershare allow guests' on the server?  The upstream default
> for
> this setting is 'no'; the default in the Debian-provided smb.conf is 'yes'.
> Unless this is set to 'yes', users are not allowed to set up
> guest-accessible shares.
>
>
> Here's the relevant section from the server's smb.conf:

# Setup usershare options to enable non-root users to share folders
# with the net usershare command.
# Maximum number of usershare. 0 (default) means that usershare is disabled.
   usershare max shares = 100
# Allow users who've been granted usershare privileges to create
   usershare allow guests = yes

To enable a user to set up shares per
https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages/net.8.html I'd earlier added:
usershare path = /usr/local/samba/usershares

and created that directory, owned by group sambashare. Appended that group
to the share-creating user and was able to use net usershare add without
errors, with the share reported in net usershare info.

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