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hello i have been trying to setup samba and on the windows side it works perfectly.
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By this comment, I'm assuming you can access the shares on the linux system without problems. If yes, then your server is fine.
Linux finding windows shares is not the fault of your server.
Have you got an update hosts file on every system? This is something most new users never think of. The hosts file is a list of names to IP addresses. For the systems to find each other, you need to update this on all systems. Then next problem, most users run DHCP on windoze machines, because its easy, and for the most part works; until you turn them into servers and share files and printers.
The problem is the IP addresses can, and probably do change with DHCP. Samba, and the windoze protocol use names to find things. This a process that is slow, and sometimes fails. The work around is to use fixed IP addresses on windoze boxes as well as your samba server. Update the hosts file with correct information.
I see you have the samba server set as Preferred master. Good choice.
The hosts file on linux systems is usually in the /etc directory. On windoze you will have use the 'find files and folders' to locate it.
A typical entry in the hosts file will look like this:
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192.168.1.50 I-Think i-think
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It is just the IP address of the system, and the hostname, and alias name of the system.