Hi, i hope you guys can help.

I have kubuntu 10.04 installed on a server with all the updates avaliable for the machine.

I have samba working on it sharing a USB 1tb disk thats plugged into the server, its a USK disk because the server doesn't have sata. The samba works almost properly.

The problem i have is that the server says its fine and if i do not reboot the machine it is. If i reboot the machine then samba appears in the server to work correctly but doesn't work on the network unless i edit something on the samba admin panel and apply the changes.

Is there a way to get it to just work on reboot?


Another problem i have, and im not sure what this is related to...

My samba shared usb drive keeps going to sleep randomly (it could be a day or 4 days when it does it); leaving me having to unplug the drive, wait a few minutes and plug it back in. The drive itself is fine, tested in other machines. I have allowed power setting set to "do nothing".

Could this be a samba server problem or kubuntu itself or maybe even hardware ie the usb controller.


Another problem i have is that the server had ubuntu 6 on it previously and now i converted to kubuntu 10, i cannot write to some of the shared directories from the network (local machine file writing is ok). The owner , login and other details are the same in the kubuntu setup as the were in the ubuntu setup.

I have since chown -ed the drive and allowed the samba sever to read/write/execute but yet some folders still will not.

Is there another setting that distinguishes write ability, ie does the drive have a flag or something that tells the drive its not in the ubuntu environment?

Many many thanks