Ubuntu – Cannot see Samba configuration tool in the Dash in ubuntu 14.04

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After a fresh installation of ubuntu 14.04 (my previous installation has seen to be broken somewhere reading .wmv file with VLC), I've installed Samba GUI tool from the software center.

It briefly appears in the launchpad then disappears. From this time I cannot the see in in the dash.

I've found this in askUbuntu Cannot run samba interface after installing 13.04

but the command sudo apt-get install samba samba-common gives me nothing to install.

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samba est déjà la plus récente version disponible.
samba passé en « installé manuellement ».
samba-common est déjà la plus récente version disponible.
Les paquets suivants ont été installés automatiquement et ne sont plus nécessaires :
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The following guide Install and Configure Samba share in Ubuntu 13.10 ‘Saucy Salamander’ , 13.04| Howto has no result either.

Any idea ?

Laurent06000

Best Answer

To see the GUI for Samba, run:

sudo apt-get install system-config-samba

then go to the dash and type system-config-samba and that should be the only icon left. Click that one!

Sorry for the back-and forth. I should have done the apt-cache search samba GUI as the first thing!

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As it is only constrained to your user account, it must have something to do with your user.

Maybe one of the .desktop files in your home folder is tripping the launcher up? Can you try moving the files in these folders all somewhere else:

/home/<youruser>/.gnome/apps/
/home/<youruser>/.local/usr/share/applications/

e.g.

$ mkdir backup_local
$ mkdir backup_gnome
$ mv .local/share/applications/*.desktop backup_local/
$ mv .gnome/apps/*.desktop backup_gnome/

Then logout, login and see if it changed anything? You can always move them back in if it didn't help. If it did help, try moving them in one by one to which file was the culprit.

EDIT: You can find out which one was malformed:

Install the desktop-file-utils package:

sudo apt-get install desktop-file-utils

Check each of the .desktop files for validity using desktop-file-validate:
```
desktop-file-validate .local/share/applications/*.desktop
desktop-file-validate .gnome/apps/*.desktop
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Or of course at the different location if you already moved it. It will print nothing if all files are OK. If any of the files are malformed, it will print one error message per line.

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