samba gui not working

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Sun Nov 16 02:38:14 UTC 2003


Asad Javid  said:
> samba gui is not working for me.

What does this have to do with testing?  Please take general questions to
the fedora-list.

> whenever i try to open up the gui it
> gives me error saying "couldn't display smb://, because nautilus cannot
> contact the SMB master browser.Check that an SMB server is running on
> the local network."
>
> but i can open up network places by manually typing smb://ipaddress of
> hostname and it does work.
>
> any idea what might be the problem??

How about you don't have a SMB master browser?

Another common issue is that your workgroup name needs set correctly in
/etc/samba/smb.conf.

-- 
William Hooper





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