Kubuntu file sharing

[rikona]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 12:15:30 +0200
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 at 23:10, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> >
> > [a LOT of useful and informative stuff - snipped]
> >
> > OK - I finally got this working. It seems I need to use the IP
> > numbers instead of names, but that's OK. Got both sides to remember
> > it, so its fairly good. If I can get the Kubuntu box to always be
> > the smb master browser, with a high enough priority to always win
> > 'elections' when any win box comes on, maybe I can get names to
> > work as well.
> >
> > Thanks again for the help - you brought up things I didn't think
> > of.  
> 
> Great, glad to hear it.
> 
> It sounds to me like you don't have a Samba or whatever problem, but a
> name-resolution problem on your LAN. Depending on how that's set up,
> if you just have a bunch of machines on a router, then the router just
> needs to be correctly configured with dynamic DNS or something like
> that -- and the machines configured to ask the router for names. That,
> in theory, is it.

Interesting... I do, in fact, have a new router/firewall device with
more features etc. One of the install options was to move the settings
from the old firewall to the new one, which seemed to work, since it
seemed to be doing what the old one did, knew about the hardware, IP
addresses etc. BUT - maybe that did not do everything, or perhaps did
not work 100%. I guess I need to check that more carefully.

May still have some Samba issues though. Did a VERY quick check with
multiple boxes running on the net. Running nbtstat for each of the IPs
yielded TWO Linux boxes with the MSBROWSE line [not a good thing], and
the win box, which usually wins 'elections', did NOT have that line.
Not what I would have expected. I guess I need  to do some Samba
checking too.

I appreciate your thoughts and insights about why strange things seem
to be happening. Thanks!