Hi I installed Kubuntu and on the whole it works OK.
However I appear to be unable to browse my network with it.
I have a Samba server located at192.168.1.77 and another located at 192.168.109. My main computer is located at 192.168.1.102.
I can ping both of my Samba servers, e.g.
Code:
PING 192.168.1.77 (192.168.1.77) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.77: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=58.1 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.77: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.77 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.77: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=1.79 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.77: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=2.28 ms
--- 192.168.1.77 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.775/16.008/58.180/24.348 ms$
And I do have the latest available Ubuntu samba client and server installed - so there appears to be no reason why I can't browse these shares. (They are not password protected BTW - since they are not computers - one is a modified Xbox and the other is a Linux based WifI media player)
Can anyone suggest what the issue might be?
So to be clear.
I have a Linux based Desktop PC, a laptop running Kubuntu, a Linux based NAS wireless router running an internal version of Linux which has a 320GB storage drive attached and an 'iPod like' media player type device, via the the 2 supplied USB 2.0 ports on the router - and finally I have a modifies Xbox running XBMC and also Linux.
All of these (except for my laptop) are part of a workgroup called (for example) MYHOME. I don't want to confuse you too much however, as I have up until yesterday - for several weeks, been browsing my network from my laptop without issue using KDE Konqueror - which simply uses the syntax smb://192.168.1.67 (to say for example to browse my NAS storage devices).
Also the shares are not 'mounted' as I hadn't quite got around to doing that and I wasn't sure how - although I now get the impression that the samba client that enables me to browse shares is simply no longer working. (The only thing that changed is that I did some updating last night and installed some officially sanctioned Kubuntu updates (there is a little 'updates' icon in the Kubuntu system tray, which alerts you to when Ubuntu release critical/important updates so I simply did as it recommended I do and installed these updates (although I have no idea what they were now).
I don't use any non officially sanctioned mirrors or anything like that to install software packages - and indeed I have made no significant changes or installed any software on my own for some time.
All I can say is that it worked until yesterday evening - and today it does not. Which is really frustrating TBH - as Linux without Samba for me (given that some of my network can only use SAMBA) is like having to live without a right arm or leg. (Only possibly less practical). Samba for sharing files and steaming media across my network is one of the main reasons I use Linux - because it has always been so robust and flexible - far more so the case indeed, than in Microsoft Windows. Of all the things to go wrong in terms of computing having to live without.
PS
OH and BTW, I have tried just rebooting too.