[FEDORA] Browsing Samba in Nautilus

[Justin Georgeson]

Shouldn't he have problems with smbclient on the command line if it was 
a firewall problem? Nautilus just crashes if I give it an smb:// 
location. Accessing shares from the command line seems to work fine for 
me though.

alton bailey wrote:
> check your firewall setting and enable the check box beside eth0 and 
> also enable firewall and test it again
> alton
> 
> 
>> From: "Christopher A. Williams" <chrisw01 at privatei.com>
>> Reply-To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
>> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: [FEDORA] Browsing Samba in Nautilus
>> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 14:39:23 -0600
>>
>> On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 14:21, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> > If you do smbclient -L <samba server>  it should show at the bottom who
>> > the master browser is.  Anything in your samba logs ?
>> >
>>
>> The command smbclient -L spike-home (the name of my samba server)
>> produces the following (after finding that entering no password works):
>>
>> Password:
>> Anonymous login successful
>>
>>         Sharename      Type      Comment
>>         ---------      ----      -------
>>         public         Disk      Public Share
>>         IPC$           IPC       IPC Service (Home Computer Samba
>> Server)
>>         ADMIN$         IPC       IPC Service (Home Computer Samba
>> Server)
>>         PhotoSmart     Printer   Created by redhat-config-printer 0.6.x
>> Anonymous login successful
>>
>>         Server               Comment
>>         ---------            -------
>>         SPIKE-HOME           Home Computer Samba Server
>>
>>         Workgroup            Master
>>         ---------            -------
>>         SPIKENET             SPIKE-HOME
>>
>>
>> This is consistent with nmbd.log, which just has:
>>
>> [2003/10/09 14:09:51, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(665)
>>   Netbios nameserver version 3.0.0-15 started.
>>   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2003
>> [2003/10/09 14:15:44, 0]
>> nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:become_local_master_stage2(396)
>>   *****
>>
>>   Samba name server SPIKE-HOME is now a local master browser for
>> workgroup SPIKENET on subnet 192.168.1.100
>>
>>   *****
>> [2003/10/09 14:15:44, 0]
>> nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:become_local_master_stage2(396)
>>   *****
>>
>>   Samba name server SPIKE-HOME is now a local master browser for
>> workgroup SPIKENET on subnet 172.16.27.1
>>
>>   *****
>> [2003/10/09 14:15:44, 0]
>> nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:become_local_master_stage2(396)
>>   *****
>>
>> So my Samba server is indeed the master browser. I did create samba
>> passwords (supposedly) for root and my regular ID, but they don't seem
>> to work in this case.
>>
>> They do work if I want to access a share directly though. Still can't
>> browse either.
>>
>> Curious...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris
>>
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