Hello Martin, I've had some time to play with this. The code gksu... worked well. It prompted me for my admin password, and I was able to make the necessary changes, albeit not the ones recommended in the forum..
I used, the following instead: name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast host I also changed the workgroup name to that of my local area workgroup. Will do some more to see which paramater actually made it work.. :) and will keep you informed. Regards, Chris On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Martin G Miller <mgmil...@optonline.net>wrote: > When trying to edit OS configuration files, you need to have root > privileges. The command to use in this case is: > gksu gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf > > It will ask you for your password, just use the same password you use > when you log into Ubuntu. > > For most help on these types of questions, you should join the ubuntu > forums at ubuntuforums.org > You will find a lot of very helpful people there. > > -- > cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375593 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu: Invalid > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: samba > > I maintain 2 networks with mixed ubuntu / Windows XP SP2 machines and this > problem started suddenly in September of 2008. All of my Ubuntu machines > whether they are clean installs of 8.04 or 8.10 or 9.04, 32 or 64 bit or > upgrades from earlier versions all exhibit the failure to display or browse > smb shares. The only fix is to edit etc/samba/smb.conf: > # What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names > # to IP addresses > ; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast > > remove the leading ; from the name resolve order line and change the order > of the entries to read: > name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast host > > Save the file, log off and back on. > > This change fixes the problem for all my machine in both networks. > The problem remains unresolved in Jaunty unless I do this. This problem > appeared suddenly in September of 2008 on 8.04 machines that had been > working normally and has persisted through 8.10 and now 9.04. > > Clicking on the Places > Network to bring up the network browse gui will > take a fairly long time to appear and it will not display any of the > machines on the network, whether Ubuntu or Windows XP. It may display an > icon for "Windows Network", but if that is clicked, the system times out > with nothing displayed after about 60 seconds. > > This happens on all machines whether clean installs or upgrades with 8.04, > 8.10 and 9.04, both 32 And 64 bit. IT also does not matter if the Ubuntu > machines are static IP or DHCP. > > After editing the smb.conf file as noted above, the network gui works > quickly and as expected & displays all shares on all Windows XP and Ubuntu > machines on the local network. > > Additional info: until I found the fix noted here, I installed the kde 3.x > network browser. I forget the name of the package, but that worked > instantly. Once I got gnome working, I uninstalled it. I have not had to > do this on the new 9.04 installs, I just edit smb.conf and everything works > as expected. > -- cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375593 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
