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All share options are greyed out, used to work

How can I share files and folders?
As you can see, I no longer can.

I was trying to get minidlna working better, so installed webmin as it has a module. But, it is no good, the server goes invisible.
So I looked at the share options, trying to share a folder using smb, but I can not.
So I am stuck.

Code:

scott@scott-P5QC:~$ smbtree

Enter scott's password: 

WORKGROUP

        \\SCOTT-P5QC                    scott-P5QC server (Samba, Ubuntu)

                \\SCOTT-P5QC\Pictures              

                \\SCOTT-P5QC\Videos                

                \\SCOTT-P5QC\HP-LaserJet-4000        HP LaserJet 4000 Series

                \\SCOTT-P5QC\IPC$                  IPC Service (scott-P5QC server (Samba, Ubuntu))

                \\SCOTT-P5QC\print$                Printer Drivers

        \\LR-PC                          

                \\LR-PC\Users                  

                \\LR-PC\testshare              

                \\LR-PC\Recorded TV            

                \\LR-PC\Public                

                \\LR-PC\pictures              

                \\LR-PC\IPC$                  Remote IPC

                \\LR-PC\E$                    Default share

                \\LR-PC\C$                    Default share

                \\LR-PC\ADMIN$                Remote Admin

        \\BOAT2PC                        

scott@scott-P5QC:~$

Looks like there are some shares still on the PC. By the way, WEBMIN DOES NOT SEE THESE SHARES!
I have had to do battles with samba before so I have PTSD regarding sharing in ubuntu.
Anyway I feel like nuking the OS and installing ver17.

Is there any hope? Go ahead laugh all you want.

I am going to 16.10, then 17.04 then 17.10
Too many software issues sticking with the LTS release.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/h...o-ubuntu-17-04

watching the upgrade, I see this error popping up a lot.

Code:

Setting up libmount1:i386 (2.29-1ubuntu2.1) ...

Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...

/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib/nvidia-375/libEGL.so.1 is not a symbolic link



/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib32/nvidia-375/libEGL.so.1 is not a symbolic link



(Reading database ... 371339 files and directories currently installed.)

Preparing to unpack .../libglib2.0-bin_2.52.0-1_amd64.deb ...

Unpacking libglib2.0-bin (2.52.0-1) over (2.48.2-0ubuntu1) ...

Well, I managed to totally kill it, foo-bared, nuked. The upgrade failed in the middle. Oddly it logged me out of gnome to a login prompt while doing the upgrade to 16.10
It went all wonky on the screen, then logged me out. Hard drive activity fell off to zero. I logged in and I got a huge flashing cursor and those 4 moving login dots but they were really large.
I suppose nvidia driver issues.
Makes me glad 16.04 was hosed, it was giving me lots of grief.
I rebooted and am in windows and downloaded 17.10 from here
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20171015/

Running on 17.10 now. yes it is beta still.
A lot of the gnome extensions do not work.

Oddly, gparted fails to start.

Code:

scott@scott-MS-7596:~$ sudo gparted

[sudo] password for scott: 

Created symlink /run/systemd/system/-.mount → /dev/null.

Created symlink /run/systemd/system/home.mount → /dev/null.

Created symlink /run/systemd/system/media-scott-0db1fb5a\x2d0727\x2d4347\x2dbfa7\x2da551d8db6632.mount → /dev/null.

Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount → /dev/null.

Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-121.mount → /dev/null.

Created symlink /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount → /dev/null.

No protocol specified



(gpartedbin:16404): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0

Removed /run/systemd/system/-.mount.

Removed /run/systemd/system/home.mount.

Removed /run/systemd/system/media-scott-0db1fb5a\x2d0727\x2d4347\x2dbfa7\x2da551d8db6632.mount.

Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount.

Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-121.mount.

Removed /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount.

scott@scott-MS-7596:~$

Chrome is working fine.
I installed gnome, and am installing kaffeine, and my shares are back.

I cant run any program as sudo, like gedit and gparted so far.

Solved by upgrading the OS!