Connectshares error [SOLVED]

[Member rmcellig]

I just installed Antix 17, updated, upgraded and restarted the machine. When I access Connectshares I get an Incomplete configuration for Remote system name or address error. I discovered that this error was fixed in Antix 15 beta 3. What do I do to resolve this issue? Thanks!!

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[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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can you post your connectshares.conf file please?

[Member rmcellig]

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Here you go:

# -------------
# Remote System
# -------------

# The name or IP address of the remote system serving the share(s)
# Examples
#   REMOTE=shareserver
#   REMOTE=192.168.1.50 
REMOTE=

# ------------
# Samba Shares
# ------------

# Enable/disable the mounting of Samba shares from the remote system
# When disabled, all other entries in "Samba Shares" section are ignored
# Leave empty to disable mounting, add y to enable mounting
# Examples
#   SAMBA=
#   SAMBA=y
SAMBA=

# The name of the domain in which the remote system serves Samba shares(s)
# Examples
#   WORKGROUP=company
#   WORKGROUP=workgroup
WORKGROUP=

# Samba shares on the remote system that require a user name and password
# Leave empty to disable mounting shares of this type
# Each listed share must include only the share name terminated by a comma
# Multiple shares must be specified as a comma separated list
# A space immediately before or immediately after a comma is not allowed
# Examples
#   SHARESUSER=
#   SHARESUSER=homes,
#   SHARESUSER=accounts,homes,video clips,
SHARESUSER=
#
# Enable/disable automatically supplying user name and password to remote Samba server
# When disabled a request to manually input credentials is displayed
# Leave empty to disable automatic credentials mode, add y to enable automatic credentials mode
# Examples
#   CREDAUTO=
#   CREDAUTO=y
CREDAUTO=
#
# The name and password to be supplied when automatic credentials mode is enabled
# When automatic credentials mode is disabled, these entries are ignored and may be left empty
# Examples
#   CREDNAME=popeye
#   CREDPASS=spinach
CREDNAME=
CREDPASS=

# Samba shares on the remote system that do not require a user name and password
# The shares must allow access to guests
# Leave empty to disable mounting shares of this type
# Each listed share must include only the share name terminated by a comma
# Multiple shares must be specified as a comma separated list 
# A space immediately before or immediately after a comma is not allowed
# Examples
#   SHARESGUEST=
#   SHARESGUEST=anyone,
#   SHARESGUEST=anyone,guest only,
SHARESGUEST=

# Options to be applied when mounting Samba shares (both with and without a password)
# Leave empty to disable the use of options
# An option must be terminated by a comma
# Multiple options must be specified as a comma separated list
# A space immediately before or immediately after a comma is not allowed
# Examples
#   SAMBAOPT=
#   SAMBAOPT=nounix,cache=none,
SAMBAOPT=

# --------------------
# NFS Shares (Exports)
# --------------------

# Enable/disable the mounting of NFS shares from the remote system
# When disabled, all other entries in "NFS Shares (Exports)" section are ignored
# Leave empty to disable mounting, add y to enable mounting
# Examples
#   NFS=
#   NFS=y
NFS=

# NFS shares on the remote system that do not require a user name and password
# The shares must be accessible by a local system that has a vaild IP address or DNS name
# Each listed share must include the full path of the exported directory on the remote system
# Each listed share must be terminated by a comma
# Multiple shares must be specified as a comma separated list
# A space immediately before or immediately after a comma is not allowed
# Examples
#   SHARESIPDNS=/home/nfs/backups,
#   SHARESIPDNS=/home/nfs/audio clips,/home/nfs/backups,/home/nfs/images,
SHARESIPDNS=

# Options to be applied when mounting NFS shares
# Leave empty to disable the use of options
# An option must be terminated by a comma
# Multiple options must be specified as a comma separated list
# A space immediately before or immediately after a comma is not allowed
# Examples
#   NFSOPT=
#   NFSOPT=rw,hard,intr,timeo=30,retry=0,
NFSOPT=

[Member rmcellig]

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Here is something interesting. When I go to the control center shares- configure connectshares, everything seems to be fine but when I go to the Menu -applications – Internet – connectshares, this is when the error mentioned above appears.

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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so you haven’t actually configured anything. so the error ins’t an error, its information.

for instance, this is the connectshares.conf file I use to access my media server stuff at //mediapc/media

# -------------
# Remote System
# -------------

# The name or IP address of the remote system serving the share(s)
# Examples
#   REMOTE=shareserver
#   REMOTE=192.168.1.50 
REMOTE=mediapc

# ------------
# Samba Shares
# ------------

# Enable/disable the mounting of Samba shares from the remote system
# When disabled, all other entries in "Samba Shares" section are ignored
# Leave empty to disable mounting, add y to enable mounting
# Examples
#   SAMBA=
#   SAMBA=y
SAMBA=y

# The name of the domain in which the remote system serves Samba shares(s)
# Examples
#   WORKGROUP=company
#   WORKGROUP=workgroup
WORKGROUP=HOME

# Samba shares on the remote system that require a user name and password
# Leave empty to disable mounting shares of this type
# Each listed share must include only the share name terminated by a comma
# Multiple shares must be specified as a comma separated list
# A space immediately before or immediately after a comma is not allowed
# Examples
#   SHARESUSER=
#   SHARESUSER=homes,
#   SHARESUSER=accounts,homes,video clips,
SHARESUSER=
#
# Enable/disable automatically supplying user name and password to remote Samba server
# When disabled a request to manually input credentials is displayed
# Leave empty to disable automatic credentials mode, add y to enable automatic credentials mode
# Examples
#   CREDAUTO=
#   CREDAUTO=y
CREDAUTO=
#
# The name and password to be supplied when automatic credentials mode is enabled
# When automatic credentials mode is disabled, these entries are ignored and may be left empty
# Examples
#   CREDNAME=popeye
#   CREDPASS=spinach
CREDNAME=
CREDPASS=

# Samba shares on the remote system that do not require a user name and password
# The shares must allow access to guests
# Leave empty to disable mounting shares of this type
# Each listed share must include only the share name terminated by a comma
# Multiple shares must be specified as a comma separated list 
# A space immediately before or immediately after a comma is not allowed
# Examples
#   SHARESGUEST=
#   SHARESGUEST=anyone,
#   SHARESGUEST=anyone,guest only,
SHARESGUEST=media,

# Options to be applied when mounting Samba shares (both with and without a password)
# Leave empty to disable the use of options
# An option must be terminated by a comma
# Multiple options must be specified as a comma separated list
# A space immediately before or immediately after a comma is not allowed
# Examples
#   SAMBAOPT=
#   SAMBAOPT=nounix,cache=none,
SAMBAOPT=

# --------------------
# NFS Shares (Exports)
# --------------------

# Enable/disable the mounting of NFS shares from the remote system
# When disabled, all other entries in "NFS Shares (Exports)" section are ignored
# Leave empty to disable mounting, add y to enable mounting
# Examples
#   NFS=
#   NFS=y
NFS=

# NFS shares on the remote system that do not require a user name and password
# The shares must be accessible by a local system that has a vaild IP address or DNS name
# Each listed share must include the full path of the exported directory on the remote system
# Each listed share must be terminated by a comma
# Multiple shares must be specified as a comma separated list
# A space immediately before or immediately after a comma is not allowed
# Examples
#   SHARESIPDNS=/home/nfs/backups,
#   SHARESIPDNS=/home/nfs/audio clips,/home/nfs/backups,/home/nfs/images,
SHARESIPDNS=

# Options to be applied when mounting NFS shares
# Leave empty to disable the use of options
# An option must be terminated by a comma
# Multiple options must be specified as a comma separated list
# A space immediately before or immediately after a comma is not allowed
# Examples
#   NFSOPT=
#   NFSOPT=rw,hard,intr,timeo=30,retry=0,
NFSOPT=

• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by dolphin_oracle.

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Ya. I still don’t understand why accessing Connectshares through the menu didn’t work but accessing through the Control center did. In previous versions of Antix I never had this issue. Now everything works fine. When I reboot the computer my shares are automatically mounted. It’s great when you work through something and finally “get” it. 🙂

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rmcellig wrote:

Ya. I still don’t understand why accessing Connectshares through the menu didn’t work but accessing through the Control center did. In previous versions of Antix I never had this issue. Now everything works fine. When I reboot the computer my shares are automatically mounted. It’s great when you work through something and finally “get” it.

Before you can mount a remote share with any app (including Connectshares) you need let the app know which shares to mount. That can be done in various ways. For Connectshares you do it by putting the information into the connectshare.conf file in the way outlined by dolphin_oracle.

Your first attempt to mount a share via the main antiX menu was done before you had put the information into connectshares.conf, so you received the message advising you about the incomplete configuration.

After you had used the Control Centre→Shares→Configure Connectshares, it knew which shares to mount, hence it now does it successfully.

In simple terms you were doing it in the wrong order i.e. trying to mount a share before specifying which share to mount.

These might help
The written user guide is available in the antiX FAQ:
Online
http://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/docs-antiX-17/FAQ/connectshares.html
Locally installed
See the Help section of the antiX main menu

The video is available on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp95SzXLp7Q

Remote Share Access, Connectshares v File Manager
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/remote-share-access-connectshares-v-file-manager/#post-3631

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