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Warper

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From: Quito, Ecuador

Registered: 2008-04-08

Posts: 51

SOLVED: Cannot see samba shares when using networkmanager

Hi everyone,

I have a fully up-to-date Arch 64 bit installation that I use as my main system and also as a file server for other PCs in my home network to access movies, music, etc.
From the beginning I decided to use wicd instead of networkmanager just because I was using KDE and did not want to mess too much with gnome apps.
Everything was ok, the other machines (1 Mac and 1 Ubuntu PC) could access without any trouble to my samba shares, even after switching to Gnome.

A few days back I needed to connect to a friend's LAN through PPTP so I decided to take wicd out and installed networkmanager just becuase it has a pptp module that let me connect to this VPN without much hassle, but since that day the other two machines in my home LAN cannot see me and everytime I have to run a sudo /etc/rc.d/samba restart so they can access my shares.

I tried going back to wicd and with it everything is ok, my shares appear in the network neighborhood and everything, but sometimes I have to use PPTP so I am using nm again and the problem persists.

Here is my daemons line:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus hal networkmanager @crond @alsa @cups @samba)

Any clue anyone?

Last edited by Warper (2011-06-05 07:31:27)

korpenkraxar

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Registered: 2006-04-02

Posts: 123

Re: SOLVED: Cannot see samba shares when using networkmanager

Funny I should find a post with the exact same problem as I have on the first day I run VPN/PPTP :-)

Did you solve it?

Bumpetibump otherwise.

Warper

Member

From: Quito, Ecuador

Registered: 2008-04-08

Posts: 51

Re: SOLVED: Cannot see samba shares when using networkmanager

Hi korpenkraxar,

No, I still cannot find a solution to my problem. What I have found is that even though the other machines do not see me in the network neighborhood they can access my shares if they point nautilus to smb://mymachineip.

And the network neighborhood in my machine is also empty, I cannot see any of the shares in the other machines. Weird.

I do not know if there is something else missing. Should I enable WINS server in smb.conf?

Why does it work with wicd and does not with networkmanager?

Bump!

Warper

Warper

Member

From: Quito, Ecuador

Registered: 2008-04-08

Posts: 51

Re: SOLVED: Cannot see samba shares when using networkmanager

Hey, I finally found a solution to this problem.

I did not had fuse into the modules section in rc.conf, I just added it and now I can see myself in the network neighborhood and from any other machine.

Warper