SAMBA

[Bob Fletcher]

I am having some problems with SAMBA. This is across a wired network. The network is up and running, no problem there, and pinging shows the cards connected OK.
I have set the security to ‘share’ I can see the computer in my 'My Network Places' but I am unable to gain access.
On the Sabayon box the network keeps disappearing.
I have even tried my smb.conf file I had running in Xandros but the same problems are there.

Bob….

[rikd]

What do you mean by "network keeps dissappearing"?
Does it disappear from network neighbourhood, or does the network reset on the SL box?

Can you give us the relevant dmesg or /var/log/message output when you attempt to access the box via samba?

Also check out /var/log/samba3/log.yourclient to see if it has other info.

Finally,
Can you post your smb.conf?

[Fitzcarraldo]

Give the Samba browser smb4k a try to see if it can see all your network devices and Samba shares. I'm not on SL at the moment so cannot check if it is on the LiveDVD and therefore installed but, if it isn't on your HDD already, it is certainly in Portage and can be emerged.

[Bob Fletcher]

Give the Samba browser smb4k a try to see if it can see all your network devices and Samba shares. I'm not on SL at the moment so cannot check if it is on the LiveDVD and therefore installed but, if it isn't on your HDD already, it is certainly in Portage and can be emerged.

I have been up all night trying to get this up and going. I have checked the other distros, Fedora, Ubuntu, Xandros and Mandriva and all work without much effort. At this stage I am treating it as a bug and not able to use Sabayon.

As the network is important to me then I have to go back to one of the others. Once I put the workgroup name in smb.conf all disappears.

Give the Samba browser smb4k a try to see if it can see all your network devices and Samba shares. I'm not on SL at the moment so cannot check if it is on the LiveDVD and therefore installed but, if it isn't on your HDD already, it is certainly in Portage and can be emerged.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Very strange. I have a home network with five PCs (three Windows and two Linux), and Samba under SL works perfectly. Smb4k on both the Linux PCs (Ubuntu 6.06 PC and SL 3.4 Loop 2b) works perfectly. Nautilus on the Ubuntu 6.06 PC is an old version with an acknowledged bug that stops it from browsing Samba shares, but Konqueror and Smb4k on that PC can browse all Samba shares perfectly. I don't use Nautilus on the SL PC, but Konqueror and Smb4k on that PC can browse Samba shares perfectly. Which version of SL are you using, and how did you configure it for Samba?