Bug 365829

Summary:	Samba Share tab says "Samba is not installed on your system"
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kdenetwork-filesharing	Reporter:	Gregor Mi <codestruct>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	elvis.angelaccio, nate, wbauer1
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	https://cgit.kde.org/kdenetwork-filesharing.git/commit/?h=Applications/16.04&id=fb48a2e997eb76ff2eeff1e69c2db35478c2f0c0	Version Fixed In:	16.04.2
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Description Gregor Mi 2016-07-18 19:52:10 UTC

On openSUSE 42.1 with latest KDE packages I just discovered the "Share" tab on a folder's properties dialog. And a bug :) ...

It says "Samba is not installed on your system" (but samba is installed). When I click "Install Samba..." after giving root pw there is a loading animation which disappears after 10 seconds. Then one can select to share something. When I open the Share tab again, it's the same as before (samba not installed).

Comment 1 Gregor Mi 2016-07-18 19:52:47 UTC

I forgot to mention: the samba package is installed and there is no message on the console.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-05-08 18:56:28 UTC

Is this reproducible with more recent software? Last time I saw this, it was a legit error message, and successfully installed Samba when I clicked the install button.

Comment 3 Wolfgang Bauer 2018-05-09 14:57:57 UTC

See https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1013345#c4 .

The code looked for smbd only in the user's path, but openSUSE installs it to /usr/sbin/ which is normally not in a (non-root) user's PATH so it wasn't found even if installed.

Should be fixed since KDE Applications 16.04.2:
https://cgit.kde.org/kdenetwork-filesharing.git/commit/?h=Applications/16.04&id=fb48a2e997eb76ff2eeff1e69c2db35478c2f0c0

Comment 4 Gregor Mi 2018-05-15 09:55:33 UTC

I tried again on an recent openSUSE Tumbleweed system with this result: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394273, original bug is fixed, but there are some details left.