Hi! I was following this guide about porting windows forms apps to linux using Mono: Guide: Porting Winforms Applications - Mono
But it uses an older version of OpenSuse (10.2) and the VMWare image that I have is Opensuse 11.1 and I can’t find the “Samba server” option in “Network Services”.
Click the “Computer” menu in the bottom left, choose Control Center.
Choose “YaST” at the bottom, the password is “mono”.
Choose “Network Services”, then “Samba Server”.
Check “Allow Users to Share Their Directories” on the “Shares” tab.
Choose “Finish”.
Can you tell me where I can find this option or another way to do whatever it does?
You can edit /etc/samba/smb.conf directly via your favorite editor. I prefer using a CLI edtitor like pico, but thats a matter of personal preference. As with many servers, they often run without graphical desktops, so manual configuration is necessary. (I had such a task assigned to me this week). If you have a graphical desktop, you might like to use
kdesu kwrite /etc/samba/smb.conf (KDE Desktop)
gnomesu gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf (Gnome Desktop)
Swerna’s excellent samba guide is a useful reference for configuring smb.conf as required.
If you explain how you want to set up access (with/without passord, which group(s), r/w access), then someone may be able to help create the exact entry required. I’m sure you’ll figure it out if you take the time to read the examples though.
BTW: Don’t forget to restart the samba server if you make changes to smb.conf
Don’t fixate on the old “allow users to share directories…”. The wording leads ppl to think that’s a good way to share stuff over Samba. It’s not much good at all, just a beginning, and better set elsewhere.
[global]
workgroup = MONO
netbios name = name_of_this_workstation
name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins
server string = ""
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
printcap cache time = 750
cups options = raw
use client driver = yes
map to guest = Bad User
local master = yes
os level = 33
usershare allow guests = Yes
usershare max shares = 100
usershare owner only = False
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S
browseable = No
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
[htdocs]
path = /srv/www/htdocs/
read only = No
force user = billybob
(force user should be considered for htdocs if you make your htdocs over to ownership of “billybob” with sudo chown -r billybob:users /srv/www/htdocs)
Sorry but I don’t use Linux usually and I don’t understand half of the things.
If you explain how you want to set up access (with/without passord, which group(s), r/w access), then someone may be able to help create the exact entry required.
This is what I need to do:
To transfer the application to the Mono image, we need to create a NClass directory and turn on directory sharing.
* Right click the desktop, choose Create Directory, name the directory NClass.
* Click the "Computer" menu in the bottom left, choose Control Center.
* Choose "YaST" at the bottom, the password is "mono".
* Choose "Network Services", then "Samba Server".
* Check "Allow Users to Share Their Directories" on the "Shares" tab.
* Choose "Finish".
* Back on the desktop, Right click the "NClass" folder you created and choose "Sharing Options".
* Check "Share this folder" and "Allow other people to write to this folder".
* Click "Modify Share".
You can do all those steps – if you’re using Gnome Desktop. Are you?
If not using Gnome, there’s a different way to do it. And even if using Gnome, there’s an optional alternate way to do it.
Q1: What are you using, Gnome or KDE?
Q2: and is there (in your case) really a directory called NClass on the Desktop?
Q3: I’m wondering which Samba RPMs you have installed. Can you run this command and copy the results back here:
AHA – I think we’ve found the problem. Go to Yast → soptware module and install the apps yast2-samba-server and yast2-samba-client. Then try again for the module “samba server” in Yast → network services. While you’re installing software, make sure the nautilus sharing tool is installed. The RPM is nautilus-share.
Here’s a sure fire (I hope) way of achieving it:
Put this stanza in the file smb.conf, located at /etc/samba/smb.conf. You can open the file with this command in a terminal, and then edit it:
gnomesu gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
The stanza goes at the bottom:
[GDH]
path = /home/YourUserName/Desktop/GDH
read only = no
guest ok = yes
then run this command to make it accessible to guests:
sudo chmod 777 /home/YourUserName/Desktop/GDH
Check in the Yast RunLevel editor that smb and nmb are switched on.
That achieves this:
Click the “Computer” menu in the bottom left, choose Control Center.
Choose “YaST” at the bottom, the password is “mono”.
Choose “Network Services”, then “Samba Server”.
Check “Allow Users to Share Their Directories” on the “Shares” tab.
Choose “Finish”.
Back on the desktop, Right click the “NClass” folder you created and choose “Sharing Options”.
Check “Share this folder” and “Allow other people to write to this folder”.
You should edit the file smb.conf and put this stanza in the place of the current [global] stanza:
[global]
workgroup = MONO
netbios name = mono
name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins
server string = ""
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
printcap cache time = 750
cups options = raw
use client driver = yes
map to guest = Bad User
local master = yes
os level = 33
usershare allow guests = Yes
usershare max shares = 100
usershare owner only = False
The rest of the smb.conf file is OK for now.
When finished, reboot Suse, pause, reboot windows, pause, reboot Suse, pause, reboot windows. That forces them to start talking.
