Samba on Jaunty
Gilles Gravier
ggravier at fsfe.org
Mon Sep 7 16:40:53 UTC 2009
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.
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