2 (probably related) network problems

[Shlomo Solomon]

An update to what I wrote:
In Dolphin I can do:
smb://solomon@pi and I see all the files with correct owners and
permissions.

So this works, but NOT if I just click on the device in the left panel
of Dolphin or if I access files from konsole.


On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 10:32:03 +0300
Shlomo Solomon <shlomo at the-solomons.net> wrote:

> 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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