Error chowning directory while setting up samba server with gadmin on ubuntu 12.04 lts

Can you please explain in more details what you plan to do and how you have been trying it?
Thanks!

I open gadmin, enter my password, I'm an admin
I go to the users tab
I hit add new user
I enter the username, password, group, comment, home directory, and hit apply
Error message comes up in a new window saying:

 Error chowning directory: /var/lib/samba/profiles/monicaokeefe

what is the output of:

ls -l /var/lib/samba/profiles/monicaokeefe; uname -a; lsb_release -a

Thanks

-l: command not found
Linux cowbox 3.2.0-33-generic-pae #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 18 15:39:21 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise

ok once more. Run:

ls -l /var/lib/samba/profiles/monicaokeefe

What is output?

Thanks

-l command not found

It's all one command, copy the whole line, there aren't 2 commands here. Like this:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8850924/command.jpg

I'd left out the ls before, now it returned: total 0

Can you paste the output of

ls -l /var/lib/samba/profiles/monicaokeefe

"total 0" seems like a strange response from that command.

I don't know what to tell ya, I typed ls -l /var/lib/samba/profiles/monicaokeefe in again, it gave me the same reply.

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I have this same problem with gadmin - can somebody help?

I have this same problem with gadmin - can somebody help?

I launched this as root. The command that the guy was trying to show you should have been:

  From the command prompt: ls -ld /var/lib/samba/profiles/monicaokeefe

You should have seen this:

  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 9 08:36 /var/lib/samba/profiles/monicaokeefe

It is owned by root, but you are launching GADMIN-SAMBA as your user. To work around this, I opened a command prompt and launched the application using sudo as follows:

          sudo gadmin-samba &

Now all of your groups, users, and relevant data is displayed as well. Hope that helps someone, even thought this is an old post.

-Scotsmon.