[FEDORA] Browsing Samba in Nautilus

alton bailey ojgbagg27ab at msn.com
Fri Oct 10 02:44:51 UTC 2003


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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