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  1. Bug #1767454
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Comment 1 for bug 1767454

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David Spoelstra (davids-mediamachine) wrote : Re: "Other Locations" do not automatically find Samba servers in Ubuntu 18.04

Since syslog said:
Called "net usershare info" but it failed: Failed to execute child process “net” (No such file or directory)

I installed:
sudo apt install samba-common-bin

It still doesn't work, but now syslog says:
Apr 27 15:21:39 david-HP-ProBook-440-G2 dbus-daemon[1331]: [session uid=1000 pid=1331] Activating service name='org.gnome.Nautilus' requested by ':1.13' (uid=1000 pid=1466 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell " label="unconfined")
Apr 27 15:21:39 david-HP-ProBook-440-G2 dbus-daemon[1331]: [session uid=1000 pid=1331] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Nautilus'
Apr 27 15:21:40 david-HP-ProBook-440-G2 dbus-daemon[760]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.hostname1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.hostname1.service' requested by ':1.119' (uid=1000 pid=2778 comm="/usr/bin/nautilus --gapplication-service " label="unconfined")
Apr 27 15:21:40 david-HP-ProBook-440-G2 systemd[1]: Starting Hostname Service...
Apr 27 15:21:40 david-HP-ProBook-440-G2 nautilus[2778]: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: mkdir failed on directory /var/run/samba/msg.lock: Permission denied#012net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory#012Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.
Apr 27 15:21:40 david-HP-ProBook-440-G2 dbus-daemon[760]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.hostname1'
Apr 27 15:21:40 david-HP-ProBook-440-G2 systemd[1]: Started Hostname Service.