Still affected in 16.04.6 upgraded from Trusty : the log in this machine shows
Mar 28 17:41:43 nux gnome-session[25837]: Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: « net usershare » returned error 255 : mkdir failed on directory /var/run/samba/msg.lock: Permission denied Mar 28 17:41:43 nux gnome-session[25837]: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error None file or directory of this kind Mar 28 17:41:43 nux gnome-session[25837]: Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing. even after I created /var/lib/samba/usershares and touch /var/run/samba/msg.lock (*): ~ ls -l /var/lib/samba/ total 8 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 march 4 2017 private drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 march 28 17:42 usershares # members sambashare me $ ls -l /var/run/samba/msg.lock -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 mars 28 18:55 /var/run/samba/msg.lock (*)Maybe I should have mkdir msg.lock ? Yes I should: $ net usershare info --long directory /var/run/samba/msg.lock isn't a directory # rm /var/run/samba/msg.lock # mkdir /var/run/samba/msg.lock Wait and see Here only nautilus-share is installed (I was prompted to install it by Files one day when I wanted to share a folder - Samba not installed : not prompted=no need) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211966 Title: nautilus-share report a warning about missing /var/lib/samba/usershares To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/apache2/+bug/211966/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
