Network

[Ross Schoenauer]

Tom H wrote:
>>>>>> I have 5 computers running a mix of  ubuntu 9.10 and linux mint
>>>>>> Gloria on a wired home network.  None of these computers will network
>>>>>> with each other. The all go on line and surf the web ok.  When I click
>>>>>> the networking icon it will go to 'windows networking', and I click
>>>>>> that, which takes me to 'workgroup'.  I click that and it states
>>>>>> 'opening workgroup and then states 'unable to mount workgroup'.
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>>>>> You need samba installed.
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>>>> I installed samba "sudo apt-get install samba". On one of my computers
>>>> it removed a bunch of left over junk and then installed samba ok.  Prity
>>>> much the same results as before. I have used ubuntu from the 7.xx days.
>>>> On those older systems net working worked right out of the box.  I
>>>> always had  a samba entry in system-administrator which I could click to
>>>> configure samba.  The newer the system the harder it got to network.  I
>>>> do not have a entry for samba in system-administrator on any of my
>>>> computers. The other computers all showed samba lnstalled and up to
>>>> date when I ran "sudo apt-get install samba".
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>>> So do you have any shared folders? Open Nautilus, right-click on a
>>> folder you wish to share, select Properties|Share and elect to 'Share
>>> this folder'.
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>> Yes i have shared folders on all computers.  Network will not see any
>> other computers. All I get is "unable to mount workgroup". This happens
>> with all of my computers.
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> Are all your boxes in the same workgroup?
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> Can you list the shares at the CLI?
> With
> smbclient -L <hostnetbios> -U <user>
> or
> smbclient -L -I <hostipaddress> -U <user>
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> Do you have samba users on your samba servers?
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Both of the above returned---

ross at Mint8Quad64 ~ $ smbclient -L <hostnetbios> -U <user>
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
ross at Mint8Quad64 ~ $ smbclient -L -I <hostipaddress> -U <user>
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
ross at Mint8Quad64 ~ $

ross at Mint8Quad64 ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/samba status
 * nmbd is running
 * smbd is running
ross at Mint8Quad64 ~ $  service samba status
 * nmbd is running
 * smbd is running
ross at Mint8Quad64 ~ $

Ross