With a Ubunti/Zorin fileserver in the network, my Windows 7 machines 'saw' the shared Linux drives. Once upgraded to Windows 8 or higher the Linux fileserver was visible but no more accessible. On the Linux side nothing has changed. What's up here?

Jan

My guess is Windows 8 uses an incompatible version of CIFS out of the box.
Did you turn on Network discovery?
Windows 8 by default doesn't try to find other networks.

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Well, as retired IT person I can only agree with you. I tried all of the usual things to connect to the 'other' network. Widows <g> saw it OK but refused to connect to anything shared on that side. Asked for password but refused to recognise it. Finally I was not able to find a solution, so here I am.
I suppose there will be other people out there facing the same issue, so I am curious how long it will take to find a solution.

Good question... Perhaps someone needs to file a bug report with Microsoft?

Play Bonny!

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I found a thread on another forum that might be helpful. I have no way of testing it.

http://superuser.com/questions/76628...om-windows-8-1

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Great! I'll dig into that. It looks promising.
Keep IT up! - Jan

You might try Linux Reader in Windows.
http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/

I have used it in windows 8.1 to get files off my hard drive's linux partition. I have no way to test whether it will work over a network, but it is free to download and use.

Good luck.

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Splendid! Downloaded and will give it a try. Thanks a bunch - Jan

The DiskInternals reader looks like it only reads (no write) to local filesystems (ext2/ext3) and not a network.

What version of Zorin are you running?

I personally have not had any problems with windows 8 connecting but I'm running CentOS 6 which is samba version 3 something. You are using the same password/username as setup using smbpasswd?

To be honest, I do not know. I had a machine setup with Zorin, this to have a spare file server. Currently I have a Windows Server 2003 happily up and running but just for in case he failed, I wanted to have a Linux machine in standby, as I am using external disks this would be fine. Everything worked OK with the spare fileserver until I upgraded some machines to Widows 8 or 10 (help!). Linux dissapeared. I tried with Samba 3, SmbPassWd extremely simple (no strangers around). The Linux server was visible in Widows but not accessible. Meanwhile I have found/received some interesting information/threads on this. The original Linux machine is now setup with XP, this is working fine, so I have my spare. Later I'll try to setup another Linux machine using the usefull information I got in this forum. Thank you all for the guidance. Whenever I'll dig in to this again and the thread is still here I promise to report back!

Jan - Keeping IT up!