Windows PCs don't see Sabayon PC

[TommyWylie]

I have several Windows PCs on my home network (hard wired not wifi). They are all members of "Workgroup" and are titled PC1, PC2, etc.

The Sabayon PC is named PC4 and I set it up as part of the Workgroup, with two shared folders inside "home". However, while PC4 can see all the other PCs on the workgroup (and acess all shared folders on them), none of my Windows PCs can see PC4 in the Workgroup. They can all ping it, but they can't access it. I can ping it with 192.168.0.4, but if I type "ping PC4" I get "unknown host PC4".

I have disabled the firewall on PC4, but I am still unable to access PC4 from a Windows PC. I am relatively new to Linux, and completely new to Sabayon, so I don't really know how to set the accessibility.

[Thev00d00]

Check the UFW Firewall

[Fitzcarraldo]

Make sure the Samba initscript is in the default runlevel:

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# rc-update -v show | grep samba
                samba |      default

If it isn't, add it:

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# rc-update add samba default

Same goes for the CUPS daemon:

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# rc-update -v show | grep cups
                cupsd |      default

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# rc-update add cupsd default

Also make sure your Samba configuration file /etc/samba/smb.conf is correct. Here's mine as an example (obviously your NETBIOS name and Public directory path will be different to mine):

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[global]
netbios name = meshedgedx
message command = /usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s
printcap name = cups
printing = cups
printer admin = @adm
log file = /var/log/samba3/log.%m
max log size = 50
map to guest = bad user
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/private/smbpasswd
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast
wins support = yes
dns proxy = no

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = no

[netlogon]
comment = Network Logon Service
path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
guest ok = yes

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
guest ok = yes
printable = yes
create mask = 0700
print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r   # using client side printer drivers.

[print$]
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
write list = @adm root
guest ok = yes

[PUBLIC]
path = /home/fitzcarraldo/Public/
guest ok = yes
read only = no

Make sure you have UFW configured to allow Samba and CUPS to access the network: see my post How to config ufw/ufw-frontends for Samba browsing/printing.

In addition, I had to enable authentication on a Vista PC on my home network. Perhaps the same applies with Windows 7 (I don't know). See the first part of the SL Wiki article HOWTO: Vista printer sharing for details. Also make sure the firewall on your other PCs are not blocking the traffic. I had to configure the firewalls at both ends, as I explained in the aforementioned SL Wiki article.