When trying to create a share via Dolphin with the help of the kdenetwork-filesharing plugin, it asks for creating/setting a Samba user/password, despite a Samba user is already present. How it looks: https://i.imgur.com/E9au5N7.png https://i.imgur.com/4LXkdcV.png https://i.imgur.com/wdRONLK.png STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. install kdenetwork-filesharing plugin 2. install samba-usershares package 3. add your user to the group "usershares", which was created via the "samba-usershares" package 4. create a Samba user for your Linux user and set a password 5. restart 6. create a directory in your home directory 7. set the right SELinux context for the share sudo semanage fcontext --add --type "samba_share_t" "/home/my_user_name/name_of_directory(/.*)?" sudo restorecon -R ~/name_of_directory 8. open properties of the directory. Go to "Share" tab OBSERVED RESULT There is a button to create/set a Samba user/password, despite a Samba user beeing already present. EXPECTED RESULT It should not ask for this if a Samba user is already present. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora 37 KDE Spin , everything is up to date ADDITIONAL INFORMATION As seen here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2096405 and here https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/issue/109 there exists a "samba-usershares" package in the Fedora repo which creates the directory "/var/lib/samba/usershares" and a "/etc/samba/usershares.conf" file. The "/etc/samba/smb.conf" file has the following line: https://i.imgur.com/93FYiaj.png which includes, as I understand, the additional configuration from "/etc/samba/usershares.conf", created by the samba-usershares package. The "/etc/samba/usershares.conf" file holds this: https://i.imgur.com/Sr87uKz.png
What is the name of the samba user? I think the system looks for one with an identical name as your user account. It shouldn't be necessary to create one manually since the system is supposed to do it for you.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > What is the name of the samba user? I think the system looks for one with an > identical name as your user account. It shouldn't be necessary to create one > manually since the system is supposed to do it for you. The name of my Samba user is the same as my Linux user. Linux = schM0ggi Samba = schM0ggi I've created a Samba user beforehand because it's the first time I'm using Samba and I've tested a share combined with a second Windows pc. I've followed the documentation of Fedora, specifically the part "Sharing a directory inside /home". https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/samba/ I've also deleted my Samba user and tested if the plugin creates a new one when answering the dialogue. It does not. I've checked with the command "sudo pdbedit -L"
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Thanks for the info. Will investigate.
User::inSamba() is returning false here when it should be true, triggering the "create a Samba user" page to inappropriately appear. In User::resolve(), there's code to check for existing Samba users, so I guess for your your setup, it isn't working, or isn't being run.
Hi. I wanted to ask if there is any light in the tunnel for this bug?
I'm having the same bug on Arch Linux. Only on my laptop though, for some reason it works fine on my desktop. And I know this isn't a proper fix, but just adding "true || " to the first line of User::resolve() works: > if (true || !qobject_cast<UserManager *>(parent())->canManageSamba() || m_name == everyoneUserName) {
Bug still exists. Exactly the same bahaviour in Ubuntu.