On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, B-o-B De Mars wrote: > On 2/4/2013 7:12 AM, Thomas Rieff wrote:: >> >> I have some Ubuntu desktop machines...one at home and one at the >> office...that I use for backup of backup of files. Samba was setup >> using by editing the smb.conf. In the past this worked. Now it seems >> that any changes here don't have much effect. Seems I have to go to the >> file folders and activate the share with gui. Is there a lock out >> feature that desktops are gui only??? >> > > What kind of changes are you making exactly? > > After you make the change are you restarting SMB, NMD & WINBIND? I'm not the OP... I only restart smbd after making changes to the config, and that seems to be enough. I also don't see nmd or winbind running on my system where smbd is working. My Ubuntu machine is a little long in the tooth, though -- 10.10. Mike