papaschtroumpf Posted October 20, 2007 Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 (edited) I just discovered that I can't connect from windows to my linux machine, it tells me the path wsa not found. Unfortunately I don't know how long this may have been going on, I'm guessing since the last update using the control center. I can;t really see anything wierd in the smb.conf file, although I am far from an expert. At least the network names, etc... seem right. I'm really not sure how to start troubleshooting this.... Edited October 22, 2007 by papaschtroumpf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted October 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 From the linux machine, I can open smb://<name of the windows machine> and access files on the windows machine, including putting files there. this seems to point to a problem with the samba service rather than some other kind of connectivity problem right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted October 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 restart smbd to no avail. What is the "proper" way to edit smb.conf nowadays? I generally do it by hand because the other used to be incompatible (they overwrote everything rather than start from the config in the file), has the wrord change since I last tried to use those web based configuration tools (a few years ago) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 20, 2007 Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 "sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf" is generally the most reliable method of all, but most of the times I use the webmin samba module. It works splendidly. I am a KDE user, but I have no problem to admit that the kcontrol samba admin module is crappy at the very best (including the very last 3.5.8 incarnation). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted October 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Does the webmin overwrite your settings the way it used to? I also looked at my smb.conf by hand and I can't figure what if anything changed, so it may not be the issue, althoguh smb.conf is one of those linux black arts, like sendmail conf files... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted October 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Running wireshark showed that the computer was not running the naming service (the computer was not answering the broadcast for tis name). I had to restart it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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