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#1 2007-09-05 07:52:07

arunvragh
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Registered: 2007-04-17
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Samba problem

I am having problems seeing other computers on my network using Places/Network/(name of workgroup). It does not display the computers. But if I open nautilus and enter smb://IP of computer I want to connect I am able to browse the other computer. It works fine on Network Neighbourhood on all windows machines and my shared folder is also visible and accessible on the Network Neighbourhood of windows machines.

Any opinions as to what I should correct in my smb.conf file. Is it a DNS issue? I use OpenDNS.

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#2 2007-09-05 07:58:37

fwojciec
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Registered: 2007-05-20
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Re: Samba problem

I had a similar problem for a while.  I made sure that all my computers knew their domain, so I filled in all the info (including domain name) into /etc/hosts and entered the domain name into /etc/conf.d/nisdomainname and it all seems to work as it should now.

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#3 2007-09-05 08:29:40

arunvragh
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Registered: 2007-04-17
Posts: 111

Re: Samba problem

But I work in a workgroup environment, no domain. Will yr solution still work

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#4 2007-09-05 15:41:46

fwojciec
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Registered: 2007-05-20
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Re: Samba problem

It should, just use the workgroup name as the domain name.

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#5 2007-09-06 00:47:35

dschrute
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From: NJ, USA
Registered: 2007-04-09
Posts: 183

Re: Samba problem

arunvragh wrote:

But I work in a workgroup environment, no domain. Will yr solution still work

You're confusing a Windows domain ( as in Domain controller ) with a dns domain.  You only need the (dns) domain info if you're already using it for name resolution.  Either way just make sure simple name resolution is working properly.

Samba will use dns, /etc/hosts of even a lmhosts file for name resolution.  See the Samba documentation for a very good explanation :
http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Sam … wsing.html

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