Rod_H's questions

I am running Samba 4.7.6 on a Ubuntu 20.04 LTS install inside an ESXi Machine. The shares work fine to view but when I or my wife try to create a new file or directory from Windows, we get the old no permissions message. So for me I just go to putty and run chmod -R etc, and bob's your uncle. My wife on the other hand just wants things to work.

So I create a new directory and I get:

drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nogroup  4096 Mar 10 20:32  test_directory

So this is OK so long as I don't want to do anything in the direcory as I am user rod not nobody So with the group set to nogroup, I would be able to write, except that the new directory is created with group not having write permissions. Now I used nobody:nogroup because this was a open shared file that anyone that can get onto the network is able to get into.

The /shares/shared except from the smb.conf is below.

path = /shares/shared
browsable = yes
writable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = yes
null passwords = yes
create mask = 0777
force user = nobody
force group = nogroup

Any suggestions about how I can make this shared Samba folder create files that nogroup has write permissions?

I have a small home network, running as a WORKGROUP with the same name. When I go to browse the network from my Ubuntu 18.04 machine from the "Files" app it sees the "Windows Network" but when I click on that, it returns "Folder is Empty". I have an old HP server running Ubuntu 15.04 (I know I should upgrade) server with several shares, and it sees none of them, I have a couple of Linux (one Ubuntu, one Mint) laptops running in the house, and nothing.

I have installed Samba, and edited it to include the "client max protocol = NT1" line as suggested in "https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2390873" with no success.

I would desperately like to be able to access these shares as they have content I am working on at the moment, but this forces me to you my Win10 machine.

System Specs Dual Core 3.0GHz Intel G3220 CPU 8 GB DDR3 RAM using on board Video and network. Any suggestions would help. Rod

I know there is a way to do this, but I just dumped a bunch of my favorite wallpaper files in /usr/share/backgrouds/. In order for my Ubutnu 17.10 to use them, I need to edit the artful-wallpapers.xml file and add each file name to a statement looking like this:

<wallpaper>
 <name>calm</name>
 <filename>/usr/share/backgrounds/02488_calm_1440x900.jpg</filename>
 <options>zoom</options>
 <pcolor>#000000</pcolor>
 <scolor>#000000</scolor>
 <shade_type>solid</shade_type>
</wallpaper>

This is long and tedious to do one at a time, and I am sure I have merged data before, but for the life of me I cannot remember how.

A script would be very helpful, or at least directions to a tutorial.

Thanks in advance.

Rod