[Samba] No longer able to browse windows share via Nautilus

[John H Terpstra]

On Wednesday 21 November 2007 10:44, Immanuel CRC Office wrote:
> Herman, thank you for your response.
>
> So far, my debugging with smbclient showed nothing, so I tried nmblookup
> and have issues there too. So, I don't know what to do next. What I've
> found:
>
> I am ADMIN_SEC and I'm trying to connect to W98 PASTOR
>
> $ smbclient -L PASTOR -N
> timeout connecting to 208.69.32.137:445
> timeout connecting to 208.69.32.137:139
> Error connecting to 208.69.32.137 (Operation already in progress)
> Connection to PASTOR failed

What happens when you execute the following?:
	smbclient -L PASTOR -U%

Please email me the output.txt from the following:
	testparm -s > output.txt

One the Ubuntu PC, check in synaptic (the package manager) that libsmbclient 
is installed and is current with the version of samba that is installed.

Cheers,
John T.

> $ nmblookup -B ADMIN_SEC __SAMBA__
> querying __SAMBA__ on 127.0.0.1
> 192.168.1.100 __SAMBA__<00>
>
> $ nmblookup -B PASTOR '*'.
> querying *. on 208.69.32.137
> name_query failed to find name *.
>
> Then I tried:
> $ nmblookup -d 2 '*'.
> added interface ip=192.168.1.100 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> querying *. on 192.168.1.255
> name_query failed to find name *.
>
> herman wrote:
> >     Tue 20 Nov 2007 09:25:44 AM MST from Immanuel CRC Office to
> >     samba at lists.samba.org
> >     Subject: [Samba] No longer able to browse windows share via Nautilus
> >
> >     I used to be able to browse the windows shares on the network through
> >     Nautilus. I can see them as computers, but when I click on them, it
> >     fails. (I'm on Ubuntu 6 LTS, AMD64)
> >
> >     Debug it with smbclient.  Then you will be able to see the error
> >     messages.  A GUI tool is only good when things work.
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >
> >     Herman
>
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