[Bug 582803] Re: samba doesn't work

[Wayne]

Thierry,

Sorry for the incomplete information - I'm new to this bug reporting
business.

Since submitting the fault report, I found that it wasn't a problem with
samba after all.

I have a desktop computer running Ubuntu that has some printers
connected and 4 laptop computers, 2 of which run windows XP and 2 with
vista. I use samba to backup laptop files to the Ubuntu box and for
sharing the printers to the laptops.

Prior to upgrading to 10.04, I could see the laptops via the
Places-Network-Windows Network.

After the upgrade, the Windows network was showing as empty.

After sending the error report, I found that I could connect to the
other laptops using Places-Connect to Server then in the dialogue box
typing in the name of the laptop. I can also access the computer using
firefox by typing the IP address as smb://ww.xx.yy.zz.

I sorted the problem out by following advice shown in this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1028321

in particular, I changed smb.conf as shown here:

"MOST IMPORTANT I change the way the priority for name resolution work
for samba:

name resolve order = wins hosts lmhosts bcast"

It was originally in there as:

name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast

I restarted samba using restart smbd and everything was working.

I am assuming that the smb.conf file was changed during the upgrade to
10.04 as everything was working beforehand.

Apologies for mis-filing the bug, but I hope it will be of use to others
who may have a similar problem.

Regards,

Wayne


Here's the status outputs:

smbd start/running, process 677
wayne at shuttlex:~$ sudo status nmbd
nmbd start/running, process 1163


On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 12:33 +0000, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Could you check the status of the samba daemons:
> $ sudo status nmbd
> $ sudo status smbd
> 
> Please describe your scenario in more detail ("samba is not working" is
> not enough, given how many different uses of samba are possible). Are
> you sharing folders on workstations ? Setting up a samba file server ?
> Accessing remotely-shared folders ?
> 
> Based on that, please provide the info requested at:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSamba
> 
> ** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu)
>    Importance: Undecided => Medium
> 
> ** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Incomplete
>

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