On 3 March 2011 12:08, John MM <scoundrel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/03/11 12:17, Simon Greenwood wrote: > >> OK, I've just had a look back for your original query, and it would appear >> that you're trying to connect two machines running Ubuntu using Samba. The >> people who replied suggested that you don't use Samba and use SSHFS instead, >> which is built into Nautilus, the reason being that Samba is an >> implementation of Microsoft's SMB networking protocol that is mostly reverse >> engineered, and as such is not well documented and prone to bugs. I have no >> other information than that which I looked up and found here: >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1026668, for which the remedy >> appears to be add your user to the group 'sambashares', change the group >> permission on the directory /var/lib/samba/usershares and possibly log in >> and log out. >> >> In response to your second reply, yes, I probably did as it's something >> that I know a bit about and have experience in similar problems. However, I >> don't know anything about your problem so I am using Google and can only >> give you the same response that Google would give you, which seems to be a >> valid one. >> >> This is how mailing lists and message boards and the like work. People are >> doing this because they have experience to offer, but only if it's relevant >> to a problem. If they have no experience in a problem then there is no point >> in trying to offer something other than known facts. >> >> One of the major things about Ubuntu is that there is a wealth of >> information available and that other people may have had similar problems, >> and the way to find that is to use the search engine of your choice. No-one >> is obliged to give you an answer, but many will try to help within reason. >> >> s/ >> > > Ok, I appreciate that, but is very frustrating, when an op comes along with > a similar problem, they get asked questions, given help, and none of this > 'we help you because we can, and not because we have to attitude, I asked a > question, the same as the op, I do feel like I am being pushed away. > Esecially since a similar question is being put forward. Why are you > bringing that up. What is the difference between the op asking a quesiton > and me asking a question. > > As far as I'm concerned, absolutely nothing. A similar question doesn't necessarily have a similar answer. I have to point out that you were given a solution, which was basically 'don't use samba', which I think is a reasonable reply. I have to admit that I would automatically use samba in such a situation myself as I have Linux machines, Windows machines and Macs at home and it's really the only common protocol for sharing directories across all three platforms, but for Ubuntu-only, there are other solutions.
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