Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Ubuntu 9.10 and Samba Shares (testparm error)

Recently I got this error when trying to share a folder from within my Home folder in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) :

Failed to execute child process "testparm" (No such file or directory)

The fix was extremely simple – just install ’samba-common-bin’ with the command.

$ sudo apt-get install samba-common-bin

Then, there you are done.

No reboot is needed, just go back to your folder and share it again.

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