Samba on Jaunty

Mike A mlnx at mho.com
Mon Sep 7 15:37:36 UTC 2009


Gilles Gravier wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Mike A wrote:
>   
>> Has anyone got Samba to work on Jaunty.  Specifically I set up samba to 
>> share a folder on my linux box with  my windows workgroup. The PCs are 
>> all in the same workgroup and not running firewalls.  My machine does 
>> not show on any PC and If I click the Window Network icon on my box I 
>> get this error.
>>
>> Unable to mount location
>> failed to retrieve share list from server
>>   
>>     
>
> Has been working fine forever... From 7.04 to 9.04
> Only changes I did to /etc/samba/smb.conf are :
>
> workgroup = MYWORKGROUP
>
> Make sure your diretory has
>
>
> [share]
>     comment = Some comment on your directory
>     path = /your/directory/path
>     browseable = yes
>     public = no
>     writable = yes
>     locking = yes
>
>
> Browseable is important... :)
>
> Gilles
>
>
>   
The config file looks correct.

Thanks, Mike





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