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I have a small home network consisting of UBUNTU 12 and 14 and Win XP. I was using samba well for local file and print share.

Until I upgraded to 14.04. Now nothing works. I have read all these forums and everything I can find on the internet and either none of it quite works as described or it requires a lot of terminal type knowledge - which I don’t have.

Is there a simple way to get shares working again like they did in 12.04. Preferably via a GUI rather than too much deep terminal typing.

If even I could get the 14.04 machines to access files and printers on the 12.04 box that would be useful as a start. They can see it but fail to retrieve the share list.

Or after an automatic prompted Samba install the 'files' window crashes on opening Workgroup.

There must be a simple way to achieve this? No?

mike
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This GUI tool works well: "system-config-samba" http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2014/05/ubuntu1404-file-sharing-samba/

J.Serra
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This is an incomplete answer, and I apologize for that.

I have the same issue, and I'm too lazy to figure out what is going on. I think it may be related to the addition of samba-ad-dc.

I worked around this issue by starting smbd and nmbd manually instead of using the init system.

$ sudo smbd -D
$ sudo nmbd -D

Since I'm not using any other features, and this is my home server which is in UPS and does not reboot, this worked for me.

Jay _silly_evarlast_ Wren
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