[Samba] Problem accessing Samba Share from Windows

[Carlos R. Pena]

Thank you Andrew,

Your suggestion works very well.

I used this syntax in the smb.conf file:

hosts allow = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/mmm.mmm.mmm.mmm

where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the server ip and mmm.mmm.mmm.mmm the subnet mask.

I veryfied all the ips and subnets in the /etc/network/interfaces file 
and workstations as well.

Now the workstations see the server by its server name and/or aliases names.

Carlos Pena E.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

On 8/4/2012 5:28 PM, andrewm at aimsystems.ca wrote:
 > I had this issue before and solved it by adding my subnet to the list 
of hosts allowed to access samba.
 > i.e.
 > hosts allow = 127. 192.168.0. (your.subnet.here.)
 > I had this issue when trying to access samba from a machine connected 
via our corporate VPN and needed to add the subnet into the list. 
Crucial if you need to NAT and masq your IPs.
 > Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Andy Sheen <sheen.andy at googlemail.com>
 > Sender: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org
 > Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:08:27
 > To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
 > Subject: Re: [Samba] Problem accessing Samba Share from Windows
 >
 >
 >
 > Carlos R. Pena wrote on Sat 04 Aug at 16:28 UK time
 >> Hello everybody,
 >>
 >> I am using Ubuntu 12.04LTS server running samba server on it.  I have
 >> problem accessing the shares from Windows XP with \\servername\share,
 >> but no problem accessing \\ip\share.  How can i correct this problem?. I
 >> have tried every single example found on google with no good results.
 >>
 >> Any help will be appreciated.
 >>
 > Is nmbd running? Problems like this are normally to do with the Windows
 > NetBIOS name resolution. If the Ubuntu server is not running nmbd, it
 > will not join the correct workgroup so will not be seen by the master
 > browser for the network.
 >
 > Also worth checking that you have your net masks set correctly (a
 > machine will only join a workgroup if the net mask is correct as Windows
 > uses the netmask to determine the broadcast address for NetBIOS 
commands).