[FEDORA] Browsing Samba in Nautilus
Daniel Wittenberg
daniel-wittenberg at starken.com
Thu Oct 9 20:21:15 UTC 2003
If you do smbclient -L <samba server> it should show at the bottom who
the master browser is. Anything in your samba logs ?
Dan
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 15:17, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> Anyone know how to get around this problem? Whenever I try to use
> Nautilus to browse an SMB network, I get the following message:
>
> Couldn't display "smb:///", because Nautilus cannot contact the SMB
> master browser.
> Check that an SMB server is running in the local network.
>
> No matter what I do, I can not browse at the workgroup level via
> Nautilus. Oddly enough, I can look specifically at my shares using a SMB
> URL pointing to my system.
>
> Running Windows XP in a VMware Workstation VM produces similar results.
> I can see the Samba server shares (Public) if I look for it
> specifically, but I can not see the workgroup or the servers in the
> workgroup. A copy of my current smb.conf file follows. Ideas?
>
> === sample smb.conf file =====
>
> # Global parameters
> [global]
> workgroup = spikenet
> server string = Home Computer Samba Server
> username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
> client lanman auth = No
> log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
> max log size = 50
> min protocol = LANMAN1
> announce version = 6.0.94
> client use spnego = No
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> hostname lookups = Yes
> printcap name = cups
> os level = 65
> dns proxy = No
> ldap ssl = no
> password server = None
> printing = cups
>
> [homes]
> comment = Home Directories
> writeable = yes
> browseable = No
>
> [printers]
> comment = All Printers
> path = /var/spool/samba
> printable = Yes
> browseable = No
>
> [public]
> path = /opt/pub
> writeable = yes
> comment = Public Share
> guest ok = yes
> ===================================
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
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