Everybody SAMBA!

[Bob St. John]

On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 00:01 +0000, p.echols at comcast.net wrote:
> ----- "Bob St. John" <bob-at-ubuntu-desktop at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 00:56 -0600, Emil Payne wrote:
> > 
> > >  Windows Network
> > > 
> > > and clicking on that gives me:
> > > 
> > >  Unable to mount location
> > >  Failed to retrieve share list from server
> > > 
> > > 
> > Folks,
> > 
> > This is interesting . . . I've got a home environment of a WinXP,
> > 9.04
> > Ubuntu, and 9.10 Ubuntu boxes. File sharing between all (via Samba)
> > used
> > to work, then suddenly (about two weeks ago?) everything could "see"
> > the
> > 
> 
> I had the same problem with my server (9.04 server running samba) in about the same time frame. 
> 
> Before I could do anything about it, I had other "infrastructure" problems that required shutdown of all my systems.  When I had them back up, everything worked and I thought no more about it.
> 
> Thinking back, and this is a WAG, there may have been an update to SAMBA or some required?  I know I had done server upgrades in about that time frame. Perhaps that made it stop working?
> 
> A suggestion would be to restart SAMBA
> 
> $ /etc/init.d/samba restart
> 
> and see if that fixes it.  Please let us know if it does.
> 
> --PE

I previously stopped and restarted Samba several times, and the problem
remained.

I ended up reinstalling all the Samba components, editing smb.conf as
necessary for my environment, and now all three boxes can "see" each
other again.

I'm not sure what the cause of the original problem was, but all is
working fine now.

Bob St. John