nemo-share is installed by default but samba isn't -> usershares doesn't work

[Olav Seyfarth]

System: Mint 18 Cinnamon, initial release, installed to local disc, all available updates installed (apt full-update), Kernel 4.4.0-28.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create folder "TEST" in home directory.
2. Right-click that folder, "Share".
3. Set anything in the "Share folder" dialog, "Create Share".
4. Confirm to adjust access rights of that folder.
5. "Share folder" dialog includes error messages starting with
   »net usershare« returned error 255: mkdir failed on directory /var/run/samba/msg.lock:

Expected:
Package samba seems to be required but is not installed by default. If so, then dependency in nemo-share to samba is missing. (There is a dependency to samba-common, though.)

Either nemo-share should also not be installed by default, or all components required should be installed. If nemo-share is dropped also, then installing it (through Nemo Addon dialog?) should also pull all required dependencies.

Sidenote:
On my system, installing samba also failed, I had to purge samba-common and (re)install samba AND all packages (such as mint-meta-cinnamon) that were removed by the purge. It seems the failure was caused by some post-install script.

Reference:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=224391

[altair4 (altair4mint)]

I agree.

Ubuntu doesn’t install samba by default either but on first use of nautilus-share ( and I assume nemo-share is a fork of this ) it prompts the user if they want to install samba automatically.

Either nemo-share should be removed.
Samba should be installed by default.
Or nemo-share should do what nautilus-share does and prompt the user to install samba

[Curtis (digitalcoyote)]

nemo-share is essential for integrating Linux Mint into a not tech-savvy Windows network. Having it blow up until Samba is installed is not an acceptable situation.

Either:

1. Samba should be preinstalled. The package nemo-share does not work without it, but does not list it as a dependency. nemo-share (and therefore Samba) is essential for integrating Linux Mint into a Windows network.

2.The error message should be rewritten to include a warning that Samba may not be installed. I'm not in direct favor of asking the user if they want to install it (and then doing so).

[Howe I. Shotweb (howeishotweb)]

Fresh install of Mint 18.2 Cinnamon; this is STILL a problem. Need to install Samba manually to be able to create shares.

[Michael Webster (miketwebster)]

To be fixed by https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo-extensions/pull/228

[Michael Webster (miketwebster)]

https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo-extensions/commit/7deae0813026edc2faf5d205f3156121acf2cc1b