Samba on Jaunty

[Fred Roller]

Gilles Gravier wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
depending on your config you may need to add the samba user:

sudo smbpasswd -a [user-name]

I believe.  This is what is took for me unless I made the service wide 
open with:
#   security = share

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