Hi there
Finally got Opensuse 13.1 running just great - but ONE niggling issue

Using Dolphin file manager (KDE) network I can see all the computers on the network (including Windows machines) - and can access all the shares after Samba starts.

After a while of not having used the system I then get a time out if I try and access a windows share although I can see all the computer. A samba restart fixes this easily but I don't want to keep doing this.

Are there any settings or other things I can do so this problem doesn't occur again. (It's a trivial problem but it's the difference between a 99.9% system and a perfect system.

Cheers

Do you see anything in the log files? Possibly /var/log/samba and /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages, but they may have different names on OpenSUSE.
You can also switch on debugging in the samba config file and thereby increase the message output.
When you experience the timeout, try accessing the share with a command line tool like smbclient.
And try accessing the share from different Windows PC if that's possible.

Hi there
The strange thing is that FROM windows the Linux files are always accessible but from LINUX TO Windows is when the timeout happens

Cheers

Hi there


This conf file seemed to do the trick.

The relevant line was this one (not sure why )

name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins

Note this is only for a HOME network - no Domains or complicated stuff -- the Linux server to be accessible by 4 Home type Windows machines. No special things like Name / Wins servers etc.


# smb.conf is the main Samba configuration file. You find a full commented
# version at /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/examples/smb.conf.SUSE if the
# samba-doc package is installed.
[global]
netbios name = Gylfi
workgroup = WORKGROUP
passdb backend = smbpasswd
preferred master = yes
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
printcap cache time = 750
cups options = raw
map to guest = Bad User
usershare allow guests = Yes
server string = ""
usershare max shares = 100
usershare owner only = false
netbios name = gylfi
wins support = no
name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins

[gylfi-data]
comment = samba server
guest ok = Yes
inherit acls = Yes
path = /home/jim
read only = No


Cheers

at a case where a very old Samba 2 share was not browsable by an Ubuntu 14 Dolphin
the solution was changing 2 parameters at /etc/samba/smb.conf

[global]
security = share
domain logons = No

it was not used for domain logons and had security = user
in this case it has just 2 public shares

[TEMP]
comment = TEMP (read-write)
path = /home/temp
read only = No
guest only = Yes
guest ok = Yes

[PUBLIC]
comment = PUBLIC (read-only)
path = /home/public
guest ok = Yes

good documentation about samba types at
https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man...erverType.html