Upgraded to Breezy, other computers can't connect to samba

Ben Novack bhn3 at pitt.edu
Wed Sep 28 03:19:40 UTC 2005


On 9/27/05, Mario Guerra <guerramarioalberto at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2005/9/27, Ben Novack <bhn3 at pitt.edu>:
> > On 9/26/05, Ben Novack <bhn3 at pitt.edu> wrote:
> > > On 9/25/05, Mario Guerra <guerramarioalberto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 2005/9/25, Ben Novack <bhn3 at pitt.edu>:
> > > > > My Ubuntu machine has a pair of Samba shares for other systems on my
> > > > > LAN to access. I can still access them by going to smb://localhost on
> > > > > the Ubuntu system, but the other computers on my network time out.
> > > > > Both are macs; I used to be able to punch in smb://saraswati (my
> > > > > Ubuntu machine's name), and they connected fine; I also tried the IP
> > > > > address without success.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm not running any firewall on the system itself; the whole LAN's
> > > > > behind one. Any ideas about what's wrong?
> > > > >
> > > > > ---Ben
> > > > >
> > > > > --
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> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps your /etc/samba/smb.conf was overwritten so the workgroup line
> > > > is  the default one?.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Mario A. Guerra
> > > > San José, Costa RIca
> > > >
> > >
> > > smb.conf appears to be just the way I had it before the update.
> > >
> > > --Ben
> >
> > An update: I did a Complete Remove on Samba after backing up my
> > smb.conf, then reinstalled it. The situation remains unchanged.
> >
> > ---Ben
> >
>
> Ben:
>
> 1. Do the boxes see your machine network-wise (ping, etc.)?.
>
> 2. What does this command gives?:
>
> smbclient -L <your machine name>
>
> It should show your workgroup and Samba shares, among other things.

Ping works fine.

output from smblient -L saraswati:

Domain=[MSHOME] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.14a-Ubuntu]

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        print$          Disk      Printer Drivers
        upload          Disk      upload
        IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (saraswati server
(Samba, Ubuntu))        ADMIN$          IPC       IPC Service
(saraswati server (Samba, Ubuntu))Anonymous login successful
Domain=[MSHOME] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.14a-Ubuntu]

        Server               Comment
        ---------            -------
        SARASWATI            saraswati server (Samba, Ubuntu)

        Workgroup            Master
        ---------            -------
        MSHOME               SARASWATI
        WORKGROUP            ADAMANT

(Adamant is one of the Macs. upload is the only share I have set up at
the moment.)




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