I having been recently trying to get samba hooked up to make network servers out of extra xboxes laying around.This seemed a good idea since hdd's are so big now days in the sata design upwards these days of 1.5tb and I have seen them sell for less than $125 at that size on newegg.The sata conversion is tricky but doable on the xbox I have had success on a 1tb as well as a 1.5tb conversion running on the xbox or the linux side.This will make it possible to make the xbox into a 3tb server which would be well worth the effort and the price to build.Anyway back to topic I just wanted to put that out there for anybody who has not considered that.
In doing this it was important to me to be able to use samba file sharing because it should most likely be the only file sharing system that would be capable of running both xport emulation by stream and run stream for xbmc.
I assume this anyway since xport emulators only are documented from what I can find to support either relax which no longer has xbmc support so I have been told and samba which runs on both patforms.
I have seen threw several posts in the last few months of people wanting to know about samba on linux and some people that ran into problems and the post die there with no conclusion or fix. At best a recommendation on using a different file sharing system.I was determined to figure out how to do it and I thought it could be useful to someone else having the same problem.
You can use apt-get update then apt-get update install samba
This will do everything for you but everytime I tried I got dependance issues.I tried on 4 different builds.3 on version 6cr6 and the other on beta 7.This happened everytime when it tried to install zmailer.
I found that it kept snagging because it would not or could not make 2 needed folders for the app to build it which is why it triggered the dependance issues.I found this by inspecting where the zmailer.conf was pointing its directories to.I found that 2 folders were non existent.So I opened the file manager and made the folders that were non existent.I ran apt-get install samba and it worked like a charm.I fired up another version I had that gave the same error and applied the same fix.It worked again so I believe this cured the problem.
The 2 folders which have to be made are
/var/mail
/usr/lib/zmailer/man
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