Cannot Browse Samba Network.

[raid517]

Hi I installed Kubuntu and on the whole it works OK.

However I appear to be unable to browse my network with it.

I have a Samba server located at192.168.1.77 and another located at 192.168.109. My main computer is located at 192.168.1.102.

I can ping both of my Samba servers, e.g.

PING 192.168.1.77 (192.168.1.77) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.77: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=58.1 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.77: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.77 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.77: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=1.79 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.77: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=2.28 ms

--- 192.168.1.77 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.775/16.008/58.180/24.348 ms$

And I do have the latest available Ubuntu samba client and server installed - so there appears to be no reason why I can't browse these shares. (They are not password protected BTW - since they are not computers - one is a modified Xbox and the other is a Linux based WifI media player)

Can anyone suggest what the issue might be?

[XiaoKJ]

What do you mean by browsing these shares? Did you mount them? Are they network shares? What are you using to browse them?

Please give more information, or else we cannot help you.

[leonpmu]

Have you checked your firewalls to allow access to your shares? Have you set it up as user access / shared access have you created samba users on your linux systems so that the users can login?

[raid517]

OK I will try to be clearer.

If you mean 'are they network shares' in so much that are they shared on my own internal home network, then yes. I have a Linux based Desktop PC, a laptop running Kubuntu, a Linux based NAS wireless router running an internal version of Linux which has a 320GB storage drive attached and an 'iPod like' media player type device, via the the 2 supplied USB 2.0 ports on the router - and finally I have a modifies Xbox running XBMC and also Linux.

All of these (except for my laptop) are part of a workgroup called (for example) MYHOME. I don't want to confuse you too much however, as I have up until yesterday - for several weeks, been browsing my network from my laptop without issue using KDE konqueror - which simply uses the syntax smb://192.168.1.67 (to say for example to browse my NAS storage devices).

Also the shares are not 'mounted' as I hadn't quite got around to doing that and I wasn't sure how - although I now get the impression that the samba client that enables me to browse shares is simply no longer working. (The only thing that changed is that I did some updating last night and installed some officially sanctioned Kubuntu updates (there is a little 'updates' icon in the Kubuntu system tray, which alerts you to when Ubuntu release critical/important updates so I simply did as it recommended I do and installed these updates (although I have no idea what they were now).

I don't use any non officially sanctioned mirrors or anything like that to install software packages - and indeed I have made no significant changes or installed any software on my own for some time.

All I can say is that it worked until yesterday evening - and today it does not. Which is really frustrating TBH - as Linux without Samba for me (given that some of my network can only use SAMBA) is like having to live without a right arm or leg. (Only possibly less practical). Samba for sharing files and steaming media across my network is one of the main reasons I use Linux - because it has always been so robust and flexible - far more so the case indeed, than in Microsoft Windows. Of all the things to go wrong in terms of computing having to live without SAMBA, would be the worst possible outcome of all.

I am not running any firewalls as far as I'm aware of.

Have you set it up as user access / shared access?

No unfortunately I have never done this as far as I'm aware of - although I am not quite certain what you mean. However the reason I have never done this is that I have never previously needed to. I simply browsed my SAMBA shares in the way detailed above.

samba users on your linux systems so that the users can login?

Again no not that I'm aware of. On my Linux Desktop PC I think I probably used KDE's own Samba configuration tools to configure shares. However my NAS has never required anything beyond typing in the samba address in Konqueror.

[raid517]

I don't know if it makes any difference - but here is my Samba.conf

[global]
server string = Laptop
hosts allow = 127. 192.168.0.
printcap name = /etc/printcap
printing = cups
cups options = raw
guest account = avahi
log file = /var/log/samba/samba.log
max log size = 1000
username level = 8
password level = 8
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g sambamachines -c 'Samba Machine Account' -s /dev/null -M %u
unix password sync = yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd '%u'
passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*success fully*\n
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192
interfaces = 127.0.0.1/8 192.168.0.0/24
remote browse sync = 192.168.0.255
remote announce = 192.168.0.255
local master = no
os level = 33
domain master = no
preferred master = no
logon drive = m:
logon home = \\%L\homes\%u
logon path = \\%L\profiles\%u
logon script = %G.bat
name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast
dns proxy = no
preserve case = no
; short preserve case = no
; default case = lower
; case sensitive = no
winbind use default domain = yes
winbind uid = 16777216-33554431
winbind gid = 16777216-33554431
template shell = /dev/null
security = share
restrict anonymous = no
workgroup = myhome
max protocol = NT
ldap ssl = No
server signing = Auto

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
path = /home
read only = no
share modes = no
locking = no
guest account =
case sensitive = no
guest ok = yes
msdfs proxy = no

[netlogon]
comment = Network Logon Service
path = /home/netlogon
share modes = no
locking = no
guest account =
case sensitive = no
guest ok = yes
msdfs proxy = no

[profiles]
comment = User Profiles
path = /home/profiles
read only = no
browseable = no
locking = no
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = yes
share modes = no
locking = no

As I said this only appears to be relevant if I am sharing any files from my laptop on the rest of the network - which I am not. I am simply using (or was using) the samba client to browse files on my network.

It may be worth noting that all of my devices are connected to each other via a combo router/wireless access point, which is located at 192.169.1.1.

[XiaoKJ]

Ok, I understand what you mean. You are simply using default options right?

Do you remember if the ubuntu update touched upon anything related, like samba, konqueror or the kde library? Or even the smb plugin for konqueror.

If the update is the real cause of the problem (A livecd with samba still works, yada yada), the ubuntu forums will have a commotion about it and the answer will be out in no time. Maybe you would look at the forum. If that is really the case, tell us ok?

EDIT: can you try out linneighborhood or something? It will show the browsing without anything from KDE.

[raid517]

Yeah that's it exactly I haven't changed any Samba related issues at all.

Unfortunately I have also posted this issue on the Ubuntu forums - and I haven't had any response in the last 24 hours - so it must not be all that common. Also I can't find any specific mention of it there either.

I did try LinNeighborhood - and a few other Samba type browsers too - and none of them can see and of the shares I have on my network.

As I said, Linux without Samba makes no sense to me. Linux is all about networking - and Samba is one of it's strongest features.