[SOLVED] “net usershare” has returned error 255

timeshift · 2022-09-19 01:00:43

Could someone tell me why when I try to share a directory through thunar-shares-plugin the log.net tells me that the resource I am trying to share contains invalid characters when the resource in its name does not have any of these symbols or characters?

net usershare add: share name /home/user/Downloads contains invalid characters (any of %<>*?|/\+=;:",)

This also happens to me when I try to share the Documents, Music and Images directory.

I have configured samba in the best way and on other computers with different distribution of Ubuntu and Debian, but it is the first time I see this message, of coursethe first message that usually appears is the following: "net usershare" has returned error 255

I use xubuntu 22.04.1
xfce version 4.16
samba Version 4.15.9-Ubuntu

Thanks for your help

Last edited by timeshift (2022-09-24 22:18:10)

ToZ · 2022-09-19 11:38:05

How did you install thunar-shares-plugin in xubuntu 22.04? The package is not in the repositories.

Have you tried using the command line to create a user share (and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/samba# … Usershares) to see if works without thunar?

timeshift · 2022-09-19 17:59:01

Hi @ToZ

I have compiled thunar-shares-plugin with the instructions given in the following link, also I have checked that the configuration made for the samba server works in the CLI by running the following command:

net usershare add Public /home/$USER/Downloads : Everyone:F guest_ok=y

.

I extracted this information from a user's community on the ubuntu mate forum.

This command allows me to share one directory at a time, it can be the Downloads directory, Images, Documents or simply any other under the name Public or also my own user directory.

The drawback arises when I want to use the thunar plugin for this purpose so I can not only share one resource but several at the same time and thus avoid sharing the entire user directory using the GUI. Also as I described in the beginning of this post in each directory that I want to share, the log.net appears indicating me an error that does not exist. Thanks for your help in solving this problem.

Last edited by timeshift (2023-02-27 19:21:14)

ToZ · 2022-09-19 20:31:52

I see. Have a look at this bug report. Since you are building from source, you can easily apply the patch (which changes the "-l" passed parameter to "--long").

timeshift · 2022-09-24 22:07:30

Thanks for the help, I was able to solve the problem by adding to the file shares.c the parameter

argv[1] = "--long";

located in the libshares directory. I compiled the plugin again and now everything works as it should.

Last edited by timeshift (2022-09-24 22:21:13)

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