[FEDORA] Browsing Samba in Nautilus

Daniel Wittenberg daniel-wittenberg at starken.com
Thu Oct 9 20:21:15 UTC 2003


If you do smbclient -L <samba server>  it should show at the bottom who
the master browser is.  Anything in your samba logs ?

Dan

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 15:17, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> Anyone know how to get around this problem? Whenever I try to use
> Nautilus to browse an SMB network, I get the following message:
> 
> Couldn't display "smb:///", because Nautilus cannot contact the SMB
> master browser.
> Check that an SMB server is running in the local network.
> 
> No matter what I do, I can not browse at the workgroup level via
> Nautilus. Oddly enough, I can look specifically at my shares using a SMB
> URL pointing to my system.
> 
> Running Windows XP in a VMware Workstation VM produces similar results.
> I can see the Samba server shares (Public) if I look for it
> specifically, but I can not see the workgroup or the servers in the
> workgroup. A copy of my current smb.conf file follows. Ideas?
> 
> === sample smb.conf file =====
> 
> # Global parameters
> [global]
> 	workgroup = spikenet
> 	server string = Home Computer Samba Server
> 	username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
> 	client lanman auth = No
> 	log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
> 	max log size = 50
> 	min protocol = LANMAN1
> 	announce version = 6.0.94
> 	client use spnego = No
> 	socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> 	hostname lookups = Yes
> 	printcap name = cups
> 	os level = 65
> 	dns proxy = No
> 	ldap ssl = no
> 	password server = None
> 	printing = cups
> 
> [homes]
> 	comment = Home Directories
> 	writeable = yes
> 	browseable = No
> 
> [printers]
> 	comment = All Printers
> 	path = /var/spool/samba
> 	printable = Yes
> 	browseable = No
> 
> [public]
> 	path = /opt/pub
> 	writeable = yes
> 	comment = Public Share
> 	guest ok = yes
> ===================================
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
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