Ubuntu 9.10 and Samba Shares (testparm error)

November 15, 2009 — Admin

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37 Responses to “Ubuntu 9.10 and Samba Shares (testparm error)”

  1. diogo Says:
    December 11, 2009 at 2:52 am

    I love those right-clean-way-to-fix-things. Thanks for your hint, I was having that exact problem.

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  2. Admin Says:
    December 11, 2009 at 7:12 am

    Your very welcome!

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  3. rojoloco47 Says:
    December 11, 2009 at 2:08 pm

    That was what I was facing and was stuck to search the fix for it, Thanks for the simple tip ,Great Share

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  4. Anant Says:
    December 12, 2009 at 9:05 pm

    i hav install samba-common-bin from internet den too prblm occurs

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  5. Joan Marc Guillamon Says:
    December 20, 2009 at 11:07 pm

    Just what i need! thanks from spain! ^^

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  6. jose Says:
    December 26, 2009 at 12:45 pm

    I did your instructions, but I have my Ubuntu updated and I can’t share my folder :S, I don’t know why. the system throw “Failed to execute child process “testparm” (No such file or directory)” 😦 😦

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    • Admin Says:
      December 27, 2009 at 12:29 am

      Sorry its not the solution for you. Keep trying … the solution is out there … and let us know what you finally do to fix it.

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    • doblehksp Says:
      January 15, 2010 at 5:24 am

      try the “terminal” solution
      by http://www.jordanpeterson.me

      it’s is all vcovered in there…

      works for me at least..

      my understanding:
      although the ubuntu is updated, but the file “testparm” is stil using “testparm.samba3” as its name, so we should change by typing this:
      sudo cp /usr/bin/testparm.samba3 /usr/bin/testparm

      then file “net.samba3” should be copied to folder “/usr/bin/net” by typing this:
      sudo cp /usr/bin/net.samba3 /usr/bin/net

      at last, the file permision of ” /usr/bin/testparm” and “/usr/bin/net” should be changed by typing this one:
      sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/testparm /usr/bin/net

      soryy if im being a smartass,.. just wanna share my tiny knowledge..

      @Admin
      nice job here.. thanks for your article…

      Andika
      -Salatiga,Indonesia-

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  7. Andrew Smith Says:
    December 26, 2009 at 7:54 pm

    Thanks! I was just working myself up to having to set up Samba manually but this tip sorted the problem!! Great relief…

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  8. Swapnil Says:
    December 29, 2009 at 5:17 am

    Thanks for sharing. I was having same problems. It solved my problem.

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  9. Anil Mahadev Says:
    January 3, 2010 at 5:31 pm

    Thanks,

    Worked like a charm :).

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  10. Edward Says:
    January 6, 2010 at 5:57 pm

    Thank’s a lot! This is just what the doctor ordered! Actually I didn’t expect to find a solution of the problem so quickly. By the way after upgrading the samba must be restarted.

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  11. miki Says:
    January 10, 2010 at 6:54 am

    Right,thank you for this solution! it stucks me from sharing files between ubuntu(installed on vmware) and win7.

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  12. Jordan Peterson Says:
    January 11, 2010 at 12:21 am

    If you still can’t get it working, try this:
    http://www.jordanpeterson.me/node/222

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  13. Albert Says:
    January 11, 2010 at 12:56 am

    Thank’s man.

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  14. mastermesh Says:
    January 12, 2010 at 8:19 am

    Awesome fix… Ubuntu folks should really fix this in the latest installer!

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  15. Jordan Peterson Says:
    January 13, 2010 at 4:57 am

    Thanks for the credit and link brother!
    Jordan

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  16. dinov Says:
    February 18, 2010 at 4:19 am

    Thank you !!
    It works in my ubuntu 9.10
    Great work…

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  17. mehdi karamnejad Says:
    March 20, 2010 at 8:56 pm

    this problem almost took me an hour! I was looking for some fix in samba config file and voila! that is the simple solution :p

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