Samba frustrations

[pkaplan1 at comcast.net]

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Tom H" <tomh0665 at gmail.com> 
>To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com 
>Sent: Wednesday, September 8, 2010 8:30:33 PM 
>Subject: Re: Samba frustrations 
> 
>On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:56 PM, <pkaplan1 at comcast.net> wrote: 
>> I'm trying to set up a samba server on lucid (kubuntu) and connect to it 
>> (mostly) from a win7 machine. The win7 machine and server are both in the 
>> same workgroup. 
>> The problem is that the server is not displayed in the win7 networking page. 
>> As a matter of fact, when I attach another kubuntu machine to the network, 
>> smbclient doesn't see the server either. So I assume something is wrong 
>> with the server config. 
>> The smb.conf file is 
>here: 
>https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2010-September/227600.html 
> 
>What' the output of 
>pdbedit -Lw 
>and 
>smbclient -L //127.0.0.1 
>on the Ubuntu server? 


pkaplan at dumbledore:~$ pdbedit -Lw 
tdbsam_open: Failed to open/create TDB passwd [/var/lib/samba/passdb.tdb] 
tdbsam_getsampwnam: failed to open /var/lib/samba/passdb.tdb! 
User Search failed! 
pkaplan at dumbledore:~$ smbclient -L //127.0.0.1 
Enter pkaplan's password: 
Domain=[KAPPA_NET] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.7] 


Sharename Type Comment 
--------- ---- ------- 
Dumbledore-share Disk 
print$ Disk Printer Drivers 
OfficeJet Printer HP Officejet 6500 e709n 
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (dumbledore server (Samba, Ubuntu)) 
Domain=[KAPPA_NET] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.7] 


Server Comment 
--------- ------- 


Workgroup Master 
--------- ------- 
KAPPA_NET PS-B810 
WORKGROUP DUMBLEDORE 
pkaplan at dumbledore:~$ 


Also, to the other replies, I don't think this is a problem with win7 vs earlier versions since I can't see the server from other lucid boxes either. 


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