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XJDHDR

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Registered: 2015-06-14

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] "Network path not found" while accessing a samba shared dir.

Greetings

I'm hoping someone can help me with a problem I'm having with Samba.

I have a small server running Arch Linux and a PC running Windows 8. On the server, I have Samba set up with the following parameters in smb.conf (I used Testparm to provide the parameters without comments):

[global]
        server string = Arch Router Samba Server
        security = USER
        username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
        log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
        max log size = 50
        load printers = No
        printcap name = /etc/printcap
        dns proxy = No
        idmap config * : backend = tdb
        hosts allow = 127. 10.43.86. 10.43.87.


[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        read only = No
        browseable = No


[public]
        path = /home/share
        read only = No
        guest ok = Yes

I also created a user on the Arch Linux server with the same username and password as the account on my Win8 PC.

On my Windows 8 PC, when I open File Explorer and navigate to the server's share, I see two folders; one called Public and the other called xavie_000 (the home directory for the account I mentioned). I can open the public folder and use it without issue. However, when I try open the xavie_000 folder, I get an error saying: "Error code: 0x80070035  The network path was not found". Does anyone know how I can gain access to the home directory I'm having trouble with or if there is an error somewhere in the configuration? Help will be greatly appreciated.

Edit:
I eventually discovered that the problem seems to be Windows 8's name resolution rather than Samba or Arch Linux. If I access my Arch server using it's IP address, the problems I mentioned above disappeared. It was only when using the host name that I had problems.

Last edited by XJDHDR (2015-08-26 14:45:03)