Ubuntu Laptop not seeing Samba shares from Ubuntu Desktop
 

Hi guys,

Have a bit of a mystery here. I'm fairly new to Ubuntu and Linux - although I have been able to install, configure and use a LAMP server in my Ubuntu OS desktop, and then set up Joomla onto the Apache webserver.

I only say that, so you'll see I've been making progress VERY quickly.

Anyway. My problem is that I have set up Samba shares on my desktop. I know that I've been successful because my iMac can read and write to them. Yet, my laptop cannot see them.

When I go into the network on my laptop, it can see the iMac, but not the Desktop.

I have installed smbclient and smbfs on the laptop.

Any suggestions?


James

my advice is to make an addition to your file on your laptop, that will list the IP address and machine name of your desktop. An example is: Then using nautilus (file manager) click on 'Go'->'Location' and type in "smb://your-desktop-machine-name/" and you should see the samba shares on your desktop showing up. At this stage, I tend to bookmark so it's not lost.