Samba on Jaunty

[Gilles Gravier]

Mike,

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... :)
>>     
> The config file looks correct
Did you try first with just the IP address of your server :
\\192.168.x.x\SharedDirectory\ to see if THAT works?

Ah... you DID turn OFF the linux firewall AND turn ON the SMB service? :)

Gilles.