[Bug 375593] Re: cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf

[Chris Wiesner]

Hello Martin,
I've had some time to play with this. The code gksu... worked well. It
prompted me for my admin password, and I was able to make the necessary
changes, albeit not the ones recommended in the forum..

I used, the following instead:
name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast host

I also changed the workgroup name to that of my local area workgroup. Will
do some more to see which paramater actually made it work.. :) and will keep
you informed.

Regards,
Chris


On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Martin G Miller <mgmiller at optonline.net>wrote:

> When trying to edit OS configuration files, you need to have root
> privileges.  The command to use in this case is:
> gksu gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
>
> It will ask you for your password, just use the same password you use
> when you log into Ubuntu.
>
> For most help on these types of questions, you should join the ubuntu
> forums at ubuntuforums.org
> You will find a lot of very helpful people there.
>
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> cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375593
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> Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: samba
>
> I maintain 2 networks with mixed ubuntu / Windows XP SP2 machines and this
> problem started suddenly in September of 2008.  All of my Ubuntu machines
> whether they are clean installs of 8.04 or 8.10 or 9.04, 32 or 64 bit or
> upgrades from earlier versions all exhibit the failure to display or browse
> smb shares. The only fix is to edit etc/samba/smb.conf:
> # What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names
> # to IP addresses
>  ; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
>
> remove the leading ; from the name resolve order line and change the order
> of the entries to read:
>   name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast host
>
> Save the file, log off and back on.
>
> This change fixes the problem for all my machine in both networks.
> The problem remains unresolved in Jaunty unless I do this. This problem
> appeared suddenly in September of 2008 on 8.04 machines that had been
> working normally and has persisted through 8.10 and now 9.04.
>
> Clicking on the Places > Network to bring up the network browse gui will
> take a fairly long time to appear and it will not display any of the
> machines on the network, whether Ubuntu or Windows XP.  It may display an
> icon for "Windows Network", but if that is clicked, the system times out
> with nothing displayed after about 60 seconds.
>
> This happens on all machines whether clean installs or upgrades with 8.04,
> 8.10 and 9.04, both 32 And 64 bit.  IT also does not matter if the Ubuntu
> machines are static IP or DHCP.
>
> After editing the smb.conf file as noted above, the network gui works
> quickly and as expected & displays all shares on all Windows XP and Ubuntu
> machines on the local network.
>
> Additional info: until I found the fix noted here, I installed the kde 3.x
> network browser.  I forget the name of the package, but that worked
> instantly.  Once I got gnome working, I uninstalled it.  I have not had to
> do this on the new 9.04 installs, I just edit smb.conf and everything works
> as expected.
>

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cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf
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