Installing services in Ubuntu

[BZeto]

I'm trying to share a folder in ubuntu to access from a Windows 2003 machine. Every time i try to share it out it says i need to install Samba and gives me the option to install it.
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When I click "apply" nothing happens, it doesnt install anything. The same box pops up every time I try to share the folder. I dont know much at all about linux and installing services/apps. I've searched for samba with the application browser in Ubuntu but found nothing. I've managed to connect to a Windows share (the accounting on vmtsrv you see on the desktop) but cannot get it to work the other way around.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[nweaver]

a quick search in Synaptic for "samba" showed Samba and Samba-common. Not sure why you aren't seeing it, as it's not even in multivers/universe repos.

Try to search again, in Synaptic.

 

[BZeto]

Using Synaptic I do see those.
But they appear to be installed already?

Yet I get that "Sharing services not installed" window when i try to share the folder...

 

[Nothinman]

You need the samba package in addition to samba-common, if you read the description it says that samba-common contains only the files shared between the client and the server packages.

 

[BZeto]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
You need the samba package in addition to samba-common, if you read the description it says that samba-common contains only the files shared between the client and the server packages.

Where would i get that?

 

[Nothinman]

According to packages.ubuntu.com it's in main so it should be right there with the rest of them.

 

[Brazen]

What version of Ubuntu are you using?

 

[BZeto]

Originally posted by: Brazen
What version of Ubuntu are you using?

6.06. After trying to install the samba packages from packages.ubuntu.com I kept getting missing dependency errors with Samba-common, libc6, etc. Trying to install each of those led to other issues (Dependecies not satisfiable). I think I'm going to start over with the latest version of Ubuntu.

 

[Nothinman]

How about just typing 'sudo aptitude install samba' from the cli?

 

[BZeto]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
How about just typing 'sudo aptitude install samba' from the cli?

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[Nothinman]

Samba is in the main repo of every Ubuntu release so far so something is wrong with your system. Try 'sudo aptitude update' and then try installing it again.

 

[nweaver]

hmm....you are missing the samba package (according to synpatic and aptitude, at least).

in a console, type "sudo apt-get update" and then "apt-cache search samba | grep LanManager" and post the output of the second command.

If you don't get anything out of the second command, post the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list

 

[BZeto]

Is there a way to authenticate with a proxy server using the terminal? I have this set up on a spare machine at work. We use an ISA server that all http traffic on the network must go through. I added the proxy info under Network Proxy in System>Preferences, and I'm able to connect using a web browser because it actually prompts me for authentication. But trying to install these updates using the terminal immediately fails because it cant authorize to the ISA server. I honestly think this has been half my problem. I should just set it up at home to avoid this issue. I really appreciate your guys' help so far though.

 

[Nothinman]

Well the Gnome Network applet says it does authentication and Synaptic should honor that but whether even that will work depends on how your ISA server is setup.

 

[nweaver]

In synaptic, there is a network option in the preferences, with options to define a proxy (but not a login to the proxy, if that's required)

Set it up there, click the "reload" button, and search for samba again.

 

[BZeto]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: nweaver
In synaptic, there is a network option in the preferences, with options to define a proxy (but not a login to the proxy, if that's required)

Set it up there, click the "reload" button, and search for samba again.</end quote></div>

Nope.
I had the proxy setup in Synaptic, but like you said, you cannot define the proxy login.

 

[Nothinman]

Did you set it in the Gnome Network control panel? There's a button for authentication in there.

 

[BZeto]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Did you set it in the Gnome Network control panel? There's a button for authentication in there.

Yes, here?

 

[Nothinman]

Yes and make sure to clear out the proxy information in Synaptic (unless it just brings up the same control panel, which I thought it did...) just in case that overrides the Gnome global setting.

 

[BZeto]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Yes and make sure to clear out the proxy information in Synaptic (unless it just brings up the same control panel, which I thought it did...) just in case that overrides the Gnome global setting.

Synaptic proxy options look like this.

I did have the proxy info in there. So I tried clearing it like you said to try and I get the same thing. So I changed it to "Direct connection" like shown in the picture and still the same thing. Argg.