[ UBUNTU 14 ] Zorin OS 9 - Share Folder from Standard Account

You are trying to share a folder from Standard User Account and you will get this error:

"'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error Permission denied
You do not have permission to create a usershare. Ask your administrator to grant you permissions to create a share."

To fix this problem, you need to modify the file in /etc/group.

So, Login to your administrator account first, then open terminal, and type the command

1. sudo su and enter you admin password
2. gedit /etc/group
• Find sambashare then add your standard user account there; (e.g sambashare:x:124:admin,<standard user account>).
• Save and Close the File.

After that, you need also to modify the samba configuration file, so on the terminal type this command

1. gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

• Add this line on the Global Section, usershare owner only = false
• On the Share Definitions, set the create mask = 777 and directory mask = 777
• Save and Close the file.

Restart the samba service, by typing this command on the terminal.

1. service samba restart.

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Login again to your Standard User Account, then try to share a folder by Right-Click then select Properties.

In the properties window, navigate to Permission Tab and set the Group=sambashare; Access=Create and Delete Files. Set Others Access=Create and Delete Files.

In the Local Network Share, Checked all the check-boxes below:

• Share this folder
• Allow others to create and delete files in this folder
• Guest access (for people without a user account)

That's All