Samba died on me.

[Fredh]

I have not had to use my winxp vmware guest for some time now.

today I had to start it up because of some Photoshop stuff I had to do.
I have had this samba configuration since HH and it has always worked.

Now windows cannot read my share and dolphin cannot open them either

Some error about them not being there and a firewall.
They are there and I don't have a firewall.

Could this have something to do with kde4.3 and it's (not finished) network-manager?

Here is my smb.conf:

workgroup = FREDHOME
interfaces = eth0
map to guest = bad user

[Data]

path = /Data
read only = no
guest ok = yes
case sensitive = no
strict locking = no
force user = fred1



[HP1600]

printing = cups
path = /var/tmp
printable = yes
guest ok = yes
guest only = yes

I can use the sharing on vmware player but that is really slow.

any help ??

[dibl]

Re: Samba died on me.

Could this have something to do with kde4.3 and it's (not finished) network-manager?

I don't think there's any interaction between samba and the DE, so it is unrelated to KDE. I kinda doubt network-mangler has anything to do with it either, although one could wonder about that.

I use Win XP on a VMWare Player. There's a problem with the new 2.6.31 kernel, regarding keyboard control, but that is unrelated to your issue. Just beware before you upgrade to Karmic.

Here is my working smb.conf -- it looks a lot like yours:

[global]

workgroup = WORKGROUP
interfaces = eth0
map to guest = bad user

[Data]
path = /home/dibl
read only = no
guest ok = yes
case sensitive = no
strict locking = no
force user = dibl

[Epson_84]

printing = cups
path = /var/tmp
printable = yes
guest ok = yes
guest only = yes

[Documents]
path = /home/dibl
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes

I think the firewall message is coming from Windows. You have to disable the firewall about 3 different different ways, if I recall correctly -- I wonder if something happened the last time you used Win XP?

[Gandolf_ch]

Re: Samba died on me.

I am having almost the same issue.

my smb.config is virtually the same as yours.

It worked fine until today. I did nothing under windows (vmware guest)
I have a original version as back up and it behaves in the same fashion.

I get the firewall message from dolphin as well.

I have no firewall installed and on windows it is inactive.

Jaunty / kde4.3

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: I forgot. Dolphin also tells me that there is no workgroup present.

I also noticed that in dolphin I have the option of adding a new network folder.

How do I go about that?

I don't know the correct samba path to my data folder.

[dibl]

Re: Samba died on me.

I noticed, with 9.04, that the vmware networking did not always start automatically at boot. With your VM not running, try these in a Konsole window:

sudo /etc/init.d/vmware restart

sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

Then try starting your VM.

[Gandolf_ch]

Re: Samba died on me.

I noticed, with 9.04, that the vmware networking did not always start automatically at boot. With your VM not running, try these in a Konsole window:

Thank you.

Samba should start at boot though.

How can I find out if samba is running?

Edit:
After waiting for some time dolphin->network->samba shares gives me the same error message as beforoe:
cannot find workgroup this coud be due to a firewall..."

In konqueror->network->kubuntuws1
i have three kubuntuws1.local "folders"

What does that mean?

[dibl]

Re: Samba died on me.

Can the Windows user see and log in to the Linux system?

Were there any Windows updates or anything like that? Windows is very eager to turn the firewalls back on -- it would be easy to inadvertently click "OK" on a message and end up with a firewall back up. As mentioned in one of my earlier posts, there are multiple ways that you have to turn off all the Windows firewalls -- Control Panel's "Security Center", Control Panel's "Windows Firewall", plus "Network Places > View Network Connections". Check all 3 to make sure something hasn't sneaked back on.