2 (probably related) network problems

[Shlomo Solomon]

I'm setting up a new Kubuntu laptop.

problem 1:
When I run samba, I get:
   could not find the program 'gksu'
I googled and learned that gksu is depricated, but I haven't been able
to figure out how to run samba. Also:
sudo system-config-samba says there are MANY errors
in /etc/samba/smb.conf which is strange because I didn't edit the
existing file.

problem 2:
I usually mount a shared drive on my Raspberry Pi with the following
fstab entry: 
//pi/PI-PUBLIC /mnt/PI-PUBLIC cifs
user,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.pi.solomon 0 0

Since I don't have samba running, I did:
//pi/PI-PUBLIC /mnt/PI-PUBLIC cifs
username=solomon,password=abc,rw,user 0 0

When I look at files on the mounted drive, the owner and permissions are
wrong. 
For example a file that should be:
-rw-rw-r--   1 solomon solomon 34 Jul 11 09:55 tst.txt
looks like this:
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 34 Jul 11 09:55 tst.txt

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Shlomo Solomon
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