P4, 1.8Hz, 1gb ram, Ubuntu 8.10, dual boot, DNS-321 NAS, 2 hard drives.

I somehow managed mounting my networkdrive thru CIFS, I believe, as nautilus was acting erratically. However, now I cannot access my ubuntu computer from my windows computer. This sucks because my ubuntu computer makes its printer available.
also, whenever I click on 'windows networks' in nautilus I get the message 'Unable to mount location. Failed to retrieve share list from server.' so something must be wrong with my permissions or smb.conf???

thanks for your consideration.

Here is my fstab:
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
UUID=98d36329-a1d1-42a3-b9b2-62611b9e57be / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
UUID=17c38710-f34c-4e1e-94de-abe4422debac /home ext3 relatime 0 2
UUID=2d6553f0-5077-4c2f-9079-8713448086eb none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/Windows ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 2
UUID="e8268b32-f7ae-4c54-a765-93acc00ab440" /media/Xtra\040Drive ext2 defaults 0 0
//192.168.1.2/Volume_1 /media/Large\040External\040Drive cifs password=[hidden],_netdev, 0 0



And here is my smb (I deleted everything with a # and ; at the beginning):
[global]
workgroup = Peter
server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
dns proxy = no
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
syslog = 0
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
obey pam restrictions = yes
unix password sync = yes
load printers = yes
usershare allow guests = yes
wins support = no
[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = yes
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = yes
create mask = 0700
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
browseable = yes
read only = yes
guest ok = yes
[peter]
path = /home/peter
available = yes
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes

Try a network repair. On your Windows Box, right-click "Networks", and select repair. On the Linux System, with Synaptic, Re-install "Samba".

You might want to totally remove samba in a terminal via:
sudo apt-get remove --purge samba,
then run:
sudo apt-get install samba.

Might work...

Thanks, cloud9repo. I did the reinstallation and the network repair, but I keep having the same problem.

Particularly, when I click on "Windows Network" in Nautilus, I should at least see my own computer, right? But it says: 'Unable to mount location. Failed to retrieve share list from server.'

Do you have any other suggestion?

I think there is something wrong with my smb.conf. Termparm works, but e.g. smbclient -l Peter says bad network name.


Also, I got following error during this test:
peter@peter-desktop:~$ nmblookup -d 2 "*"
added interface eth1 ip=fe80::240:f4ff:fe49:7f34%eth1 bcast=fe80::ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff%eth1 netmask=ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff::
added interface eth1 ip=192.168.1.3 bcast=192.168.1.255 netmask=255.255.255.0
querying * on 192.168.1.255
tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb: No such file or directory
tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb: No such file or directory
tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb: No such file or directory
tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb: No such file or directory
tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb: No such file or directory
tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb: No such file or directory
tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb: No such file or directory
tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb: No such file or directory
tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb: No such file or directory
name_query failed to find name *

Nothing you did wrong, the latest update broke samba - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...fs/+bug/320547

only workaround at the moment is to roll back gvfs which will also take a bunch of other stuff back with it because of dependancies so may or may not be acceptable for you.

--sean