[FEDORA] Browsing Samba in Nautilus

[Epps, Aaron M.]

	Does Red Hat plan to have smb:/// in Nautilus work for a default install?  I've always had to do some Iptable tweaking to get Network browsing to work correctly. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher A. Williams [mailto:chrisw01 at privatei.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 1:02 PM
To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [FEDORA] Browsing Samba in Nautilus

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 11:40, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> 
> try this:
> 
> 
> $ nmblookup -M -- -
> querying 
__MSBROWSE__ on 192.168.101.255
> 192.168.101.12 
__MSBROWSE__<01>
> 
> if you have an MasterBrowser  smb:///  works

OK - the odd thing here is I just ran all of the updates for today and now browsing with smb:/// works.

...BUT my Windows VMs are not able to connect with any of the shares on he main Saba server. At least they can see it now, so there has been some improvement. All of this with *no* further changes to my smb.conf file.

> 
> do you have ?
> encrypt password = yes

Yes, this is the default setting according to the documentation, but I have it in there anyway.
> 
> if you have multiple interfaces you need evtl something like this:
> interfaces = 192.168.0.0/24 192.168.10.0/24
> 
> vmware?
> $ cat /etc/vmware/vmnet1/smb/smb.conf
> 

Actually, I use VMware's preferred method of CIFS file sharing, which is to use the instance of Samba provided with the host OS. I turn off VMware's samba server intentionally.

<snip...>

> under rh8.0 samba became immediately MBrowser under FC-test2 samba 
> needs 5-6 minutes to start this election
> 
> 
> try it with different settings, here is my result under fc-test2
> 
> ;encrypt  ;interfaces  -->  no smb:/// encrypt  ;interfaces  -->  
> smb:/// works  after 5-6 min encrypt  interfaces  -->  smb:/// works  
> after 5-6 min
> 

Interesting test. I will look into this part further. AFAIK, I was still having problems with browsing even after a couple of hours. I confirmed at that time the nmbd.log file showed the samba server had become the master browser.

We'll keep trying though!

Chris

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