<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hi Mark,</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Attempting your suggestion and I get the following:</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>bill@MacBook:~$ sudo gedit/etc/nsswitch.conf<br>sudo: gedit/etc/nsswitch.conf: command not found<br>bill@MacBook:~$ <br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>gedit is installed, runs from within Nautilus but Read Only on the file. Navigating within the terminal window is not the old DOS commands I remember,</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>help !</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Bill</span></div><div><span></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Che <cheguebeara@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, August 12, 2012 11:05:31 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: file sharing on network<br> </font> </div> <br>Here is my tried and true method for connecting an Ubuntu box to the<br>Windows network - just used it again last night on a new 12.04<br>installation:<br><br>1. On Ubuntu box install samba (sudo apt-get install samba)<br><br>2. From the terminal edit nsswitch.conf as root (sudo<br>gedit /etc/nsswitch.conf) as follows: <br>a. hosts: file wins dns<br><br>3. Now edit smb.conf (sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf) as follows: <br>a. workgroup = [YOUR WORKGROUP]<br>b. netbios name = [THE NAME OF YOUR UBUNTU PC / LAPTOP]<br>c. name resolve order = lmhosts winds bcast host<br>d. wins support = yes<br><br>4. Reboot. You can use a samba restart but I find things work a lot<br>better with a full reboot.<br><br>5. Open Nautilus or the Samba configuration utility and set up your<br>shares. I find most of the explanations on the net too wordy and<br>detailed and usually one step out of place will fubar the whole thing<br>and you have to start all over.<br><br>Hope this helps out.<br>Mark<br><br><br><br><br><br> <br>On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 09:51 -0400, gord campbell wrote:<br>> Last week I got the "failed to retrieve share list" message for the<br>> first time in years. I was too busy to try to figure it out.<br>> <br>> The next day, file sharing worked perfectly. I made no changes. Both<br>> computers had been powered down and back up in the interim.<br>> <br>> And yes, you need Samba or NFS, and Samba is the default. I think I have<br>> read that NFS is more difficult to set up, and generally provides higher<br>> performance.<br>> <br>> (I test a new version or distro about once a month, and always test<br>> setting up a shared folder, and sharing a folder from another computer.<br>> I never edit a configuration file or use the Terminal, and it always<br>> just works. Except for one time last week....)<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> > Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 18:26:55 -0700 (PDT)<br>> > From: William Frick <<a ymailto="mailto:wfrick@rogers.com" href="mailto:wfrick@rogers.com">wfrick@rogers.com</a>><br>> > To: The List <<a ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com" href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a>><br>> > Subject: file sharing on network<br>> > Message-ID:<br>> > <<a ymailto="mailto:1344734815.54637.YahooMailNeo@web88620.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" href="mailto:1344734815.54637.YahooMailNeo@web88620.mail.bf1.yahoo.com">1344734815.54637.YahooMailNeo@web88620.mail.bf1.yahoo.com</a>><br>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br>> > <br>> > I now have 3 12.04 pcs' on my network and each will list the other network names when 'Browsing the Network' . When the macbook was OSX it could access shared shared folders and files with all the rights I enabled. <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > When in Linux however the browser reports 'Failed to retrieve share list from server'. This is consistent weather I try the named pc directly or through the 'Windows network' .? Samba installs as usual I think but if going linux to linux do I need Samba ?? Is there a server app I still need to install ?<br>> > <br>> > Bill<br>> > -------------- next part --------------<br>> > An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> > URL: <<a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ca/attachments/20120811/13f08c45/attachment-0001.html" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ca/attachments/20120811/13f08c45/attachment-0001.html</a>><br>> > <br>> > ------------------------------<br>> > <br>> <br>> <br>> <br><br><br><br>-- <br>ubuntu-ca mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com" href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>