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system-tools-backends package

shares-admin doesn't add share

Bug #450353 reported by A. Tombol on 2009-10-13

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	system-tools-backends	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
	system-tools-backends (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools

the shares added in the shares-admin window disappear upon closing and reopening
setting smb workgroup doesn't do anything either

xubuntu 9.10 beta
gnome-system-tools 2.28.0-0ubuntu1

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote on 2009-10-13:

Thanks for your report. Could you run
sudo killall /usr/bin/perl; sudo /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl -m SMBConfig -v

then start 'shares-admin' from another console, and reproduce the problems you describe without stopping the above command. Then, please attach the output from both programs. Thanks!

Changed in gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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A. Tombol (atombol) wrote on 2009-10-13:

systemtoolsbackends.output Edit (8.2 KiB, text/plain)

here are the outputs
it seems to me like a problem with the writing rights
i use the authorization button in the shares-admin window

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A. Tombol (atombol) wrote on 2009-10-13:

this doesn't say anything

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A. Tombol (atombol) wrote on 2009-10-13:

shares-admin.output Edit (743 bytes, text/plain)

sorry, forgot to attach
this is the one without much information

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote on 2009-10-13:

That's a problem with getting the path to the file we have to read/change. Everything fails because we try to read a file called "". I'll have a look at that later, but you could try
sudo killall /usr/bin/perl; sudo /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl -m SMBConfig -v --platform debian

Changed in gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Confirmed

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A. Tombol (atombol) wrote on 2009-10-13:

systemtoolsbackends_platformdebian.output Edit (8.2 KiB, text/plain)

no luck

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote on 2009-10-13:

add-debian-platform-for-smb.patch Edit (301 bytes, text/x-diff)

OK, I got it. The problem is that Debian platform is not listed, which incidentally means that almost all platforms are also broken because they depend on Debian. It's already fixed in 2.8.2 which I'd have loved to see in Karmic. See bug 443312.

Attached is a patch that you can apply to /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/Shares/SMB.conf to fix the problem.

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote on 2009-10-13:

add-debian-platform-for-smb.patch Edit (301 bytes, text/plain)

Attached is a patch that you can apply to /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/Shares/SMB.conf to fix the problem.

affects:	gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) → system-tools-backends (Ubuntu)
Changed in system-tools-backends:
status:	New → Fix Released

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A. Tombol (atombol) wrote on 2009-10-13:

i think you mean .../SMB.pm
i don't know how to apply patches, so i added that line manually to the file
it works like a charm now, thank you for the work
it's kinda the fastest bug fixing i ever participated in :)

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2009-10-14

Changed in system-tools-backends (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2009-10-14

Changed in system-tools-backends (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote on 2009-10-20:

#10

Should be fixed in Karmic with the system-tools-backends 2.8.2 (see bug 443312). Can you confirm that it works after upgrade (else the patch changes will have been overwritten and your system won't work again)?