jonathanmoeller (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jonathanmoeller) wrote,@ 2008-05-08 15:28:00 |
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Ubuntu 8.04 hates Samba
(more technobabble follows, I'm afraid)
I tried to use dist-upgrade to upgrade one of my machines from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 today, which proved to be a a bit of mistake. For one thing, it nuked my X11 settings, throwing me back to a default 800x600 resolution (which looks a little ridiculous on a 19-inch monitor). But I had expected that, since this machine uses an old NVIDIA GeForce2 MX card, so I planned to spend a little time fiddling with the xorg.conf file.
I did not expect it to nuke Samba file-sharing so thoroughly. Y'see, I use this particular machine for file storage, and had a fairly elaborate Samba setup going. At first Samba wouldn't start, and then when I manually started it using sudo, the file-sharing started to work, albeit entirely too well. No authentication, guest access enabled, and full read/write control on all shared folders, which was most definitely not what I wanted. So this machine's going to back to 7.10.
I'm not entirely surprised; I've found that the .0* releases of Ubuntu always seem to be a little flakier than the *.10 releases. So I think I'm going to hold off on any permanent upgrades until 8.10.
UPDATE: For those who ask, yes, I did back up my X11 and Samba conf files before doing the upgrade, and tried using them in lieu of the new ones. Alas, no luck.
-JM
(more technobabble follows, I'm afraid)
I tried to use dist-upgrade to upgrade one of my machines from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 today, which proved to be a a bit of mistake. For one thing, it nuked my X11 settings, throwing me back to a default 800x600 resolution (which looks a little ridiculous on a 19-inch monitor). But I had expected that, since this machine uses an old NVIDIA GeForce2 MX card, so I planned to spend a little time fiddling with the xorg.conf file.
I did not expect it to nuke Samba file-sharing so thoroughly. Y'see, I use this particular machine for file storage, and had a fairly elaborate Samba setup going. At first Samba wouldn't start, and then when I manually started it using sudo, the file-sharing started to work, albeit entirely too well. No authentication, guest access enabled, and full read/write control on all shared folders, which was most definitely not what I wanted. So this machine's going to back to 7.10.
I'm not entirely surprised; I've found that the .0* releases of Ubuntu always seem to be a little flakier than the *.10 releases. So I think I'm going to hold off on any permanent upgrades until 8.10.
UPDATE: For those who ask, yes, I did back up my X11 and Samba conf files before doing the upgrade, and tried using them in lieu of the new ones. Alas, no luck.
-JM
