Has anyone experienced the undermentioned whilst attempting to utilise dolphin-24.12.2-1.fc41.x86_64’s Properties > “Share” page?
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Reproduction
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Consequence
An error occurred while trying to share the directory. The share has not been created.
Samba internals report:
net usershare add: cannot convert name “Everyone” to a SID. The transport-connection attempt was refused by the remote system… Maybe smbd is not running.
The grammar is rather poor, but it communicates the issue.
Environment
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#!/usr/bin/env sh
kinfo
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Operating System: Fedora Linux 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.12.13-200.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core Processor
Memory: 30.4 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon RX 5700
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Radeon Graphics
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#!/usr/bin/env sh
dnf --refresh info dolphin
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Updating and loading repositories:
google-chrome-canary 100% | 15.0 KiB/s | 1.3 KiB | 00m00s
ProtonVPN Fedora Beta repository 100% | 17.9 KiB/s | 3.7 KiB | 00m00s
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Visual Studio Code 100% | 16.4 KiB/s | 1.5 KiB | 00m00s
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Copr repo for spotify-qt owned by kraxarn 100% | 3.1 KiB/s | 1.5 KiB | 00m00s
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Copr repo for Koi owned by birkch 100% | 10.9 KiB/s | 1.5 KiB | 00m00s
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Repositories loaded.
Installed packages
Name : dolphin
Epoch : 0
Version : 24.12.2
Release : 1.fc41
Architecture : x86_64
Installed size : 12.4 MiB
Source : dolphin-24.12.2-1.fc41.src.rpm
From repository : @stored_transaction
Summary : KDE File Manager
URL : https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin
License : BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND GPL-2.0-only AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-only AND LGPL-2.0-only AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-only AND LGPL-3.0-only AND (GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only) AND (LGPL-2.1-only OR LGPL-3.0-only)
Description : KDE File Manager.
Vendor : Fedora Project
It appears you try to set the user and password on the machine you want to connect from. That is not how it works. This is what I do every time to get a working samba share without problems. This is a .deb based system the files may change location on yours. From my notes.
For SAMBA
root@8400:~# apt install samba
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
attr ibverbs-providers libcephfs2 libgfapi0 libgfrpc0 libgfxdr0
libglusterfs0 libibverbs1 librados2 librdmacm1 python3-certifi
python3-dnspython python3-idna python3-markdown python3-pygments
python3-requests python3-requests-toolbelt python3-urllib3 samba-vfs-modules
tdb-tools
That installs the samba and its dependencies.
Changed below to allow browsing and writing to home directories.
root@8400:~# nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
#======================= Share Definitions =======================
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = yes
# By default, the home directories are exported read-only. Change the
# next parameter to 'no' if you want to be able to write to them.
read only = no
# File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
# create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
create mask = 0755
# Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
# create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
directory mask = 0755
That makes the required changes in the configuration to allow a connection to your home directory. This is added at the bottom of the file to define the share.
[type or paste code here](https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-samba/)
Added this from link above it gives access from linux and windows.
[8400share]
path = /home/zeus
writeable=Yes
create mask=0777
directory mask=0777
public=no
Now add the password for the user you wish to connect to the share. Then restart the samba service so the new settings take effect.
root@8400:~# smbpasswd -a zeus
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Added user zeus.
root@8400:~# service smbd restart
[ ok ] Stopping Samba daemons: nmbd smbd.
[ ok ] Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd.
This allows you to use either a smb://???.???.???/sharename URL in Dolphin to access the share or in the Network in the side bar where the share will show up as you named it at the bottom of the file. I always go with the machine name to make it easy to tell shares apart. All steps as root or using sudo in front of the command in a terminal window, usually for me logged into via ssh to do it on fresh install.
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@JohnBrown, I merely wanted to share a directory via SMB. Luckily, I’ve ascertained that the solution was rather more simple than what you’ve proposed:
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#!/usr/bin/env sh
sudo systemctl enable --now smb.service
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…although I’m thankful for your effort in assisting me.
I’ve reported this to bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500788, because this isn’t intuitive – “Simple by default; powerful when necessary” doesn’t encompass this.
I’m still prompted to create a password and new account each time I wish to access the properties, so bugs abound. Not even a systemctl reboot remediated that. However, the directory is registered as shared (with KIO, I presume).
