That's probably a good idea. I purged all samba-related packages, started nautilus, right-clicked on the "themes" directory in my home directory and selected "share folder" from the nautilus menu. I then chose "smb" for file sharing, which led to samba being installed. I then filled out some names for the share. This resulted in the following /etc/samba/smb.conf:
--------------------------- [global] workgroup = Linux server string = jupiter wins support = yes [Blopp] path = /home/j/themes comment = Muppet available = yes browseable = yes public = yes writable = yes ----------------------------- I then clicked on "Go->Network" in the Nautilus menu. This takes me to "Windows Network", which I click on. I'm then presented with an empty Nautilus window. HOWEVER: If I press Ctrl-L in Nautilus and then type "smb://jupiter" I see the share, just as expected. It seems that the problem is that Nautilus does not automatically recognize the smb share. To investigate, I do "tcpdump -s 0 -ni wlan0 port 445 or port 137 or port 138 or port 139". I see packets such as tcpdump: listening on wlan0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes 00:09:59.653810 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 2, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: UDP (17), length: 236) 192.168.0.3.138 > 192.168.0.255.138: [udp sum ok] >>> NBT UDP PACKET(138) Res=0x110A ID=0x345 IP=192 (0xc0).168 (0xa8).0 (0x0).3 >>> (0x3) Port=138 (0x8a) Length=194 (0xc2) Res2=0x0 SourceName=JUPITER NameType=0x00 (Workstation) DestName=LINUX NameType=0x1D (Master Browser) [...] To my complete amazement, for a second I could actually go to "Windows Network" under Nautilus and see the share, but when I try again one minute later it no longer works. To summarize, when I go to "Windows Network" in Nautilus I get one of the following, seemingly at random, in decreasing order of frequency: 1. A blank page (most common) 2. A popup saying "The contents of the folder could not be displayed". 3. A login window asking me for a user name and password. 4. A correct display of the share (very rare). I am *very* confused. -- Browsing SAMBA shares impossible https://launchpad.net/bugs/26933 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
