Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTSP sees Windows hosts but not shares

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:32 AM, David Christensen
<dpchrist at holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> ubuntu-users:
> When I choose Places -> Network on the server (client untested), I can
> see icons for various Windows hosts and an icon named "Windows Network":
....
> 1.  If I double-click on a host icon, I see a spinning clock mouse
> pointer for a few seconds, then nothing.
....
> Is this problem only on LTSP, or does it affect the desktop
> distributions as well?   (e.g. is switching to ~6 Linux desktops a
> possibility?)

It is not related to the fact you are using LTSP - the desktops would
behave the same.
(You can prove this with a Live CD if you like)

Although the bug reports you linked to don't seem to indicate this
anywhere - I believe the issue is fixed in Jaunty (9.04)

I can on my laptop browse our Windows shares on the LAN running
Jaunty, and can not running Hardy.
Note that's a simple Windows LAN without AD, Kerberos etc, so YMMV.

Again, a Live CD should be able to help you prove this out on your
network without putting a lot of time into it.

I have some suggestions:

If you want to use Hardy, then can you mount all the required windows
shares on the server before hand and/or populate the users bookmarks
somewhere so they don't require the 'browse' functionality at all?  I
don't know how dynamic your shares are - that would be the snag I
suppose.

Can you use something other than Windows browsing?  For instance, I
have avahi advertising sftp shares on our LANs, and the users have no
idea (and wouldn't care) it's ssh not samba.  Perhaps you do require
Windows file sharing, but could you still advertise them via avahi?
Tough to know what would work for you without more background info.

If you want to use Jaunty, give us more issues on your 'client crash'
problems.  Perhaps that's more easily solvable.

Brian

-- 
All you need to know about Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty -> gconftool -s --type
bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false