[Samba] WORKGROUP/Samba cannot be viewed in list in Other Locations

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 20:30 +0900, Dr. Makoto Sakurai via samba wrote:
> Dear Samba developers,
> 
> I sent this report to the Nautilus/GNOME mailing list, but I cannot
> obtain
> suitable information.
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/-/issues/571#note_1210924
> 
> The way to reproduce this problem is
> 
> 1 .workgroup=WORKGROUP in Windows 10 PC is prepared. Private networks
> and
> sharing files/printers are enabled. Network searching is also
> enabled.
> 
> 2. Open the Nautilus in the Ubuntu 21.04.
> 
> 3. See the other location: One can not see the Windows PC even though
> one
> selects Windows networks. (One can see smb://IPaddress in direct at
> the
> location bar. But one can not see the list beforehand.)
> 
> I tried the same thing after upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 and the
> workgroup
> appeared for the first time but again disappeared. (I tried to apt-
> get
> remove --purge samba and apt-get install samba). I tried to change
> /etc/samba/smb.conf like
> 
> [global]
> netbios name = samba-printer
> server min protocol = SMB3

Try changing 'server min protocol = SMB3' to 'server min protocol =
NT1'

However, you really should get used to SMBv1 being turned off, which is
the reason why Win10 cannot see your computer. You could use this
instead:

https://github.com/christgau/wsdd

Rowland