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Installing services in Ubuntu

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BZeto

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
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Where would i get that?

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

 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
<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.
 
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.
 
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.
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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.

 
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