hi,
the same reason i keep crawling back to windows apart from steam games is that im completely stuck on network and sharing with linux. My ideal is to use a nice linux o/s as my NAS with shares for windows/ps3/xbox/mint laptop.
i wont go into all the different initial combinations of problems ive tried to eliminate like physical network and trying different O/S builds but a simple thing like seeing another pc on the network is something i cant do with linux.
and it should be simple! yet i see threads on the ubuntu bug fix section from late last year with no confirmed fix about no file and print sharing active and not having the packages needed in the first place to run it! y'know 2011 and this stuff is still wrong in the newest ubuntu !
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-user-share/+bug/536766
surley, given the multiple devices people have now at home it should be as intuitive as a windows 'homegroup' they concentrated on 'ubuntu one' before this!
enough waffling, my problem then...
2 x PC
2 x Linux Distro :
1 = Linux mint 9 all the latest updates with apache2.2 libs installed.
1 = Linux Ubuntu 11 beta all the latest updates with apache2.2 libs installed.
Both set to "HOME" workgroup in SMB.conf
Both smb4k installed
Both 'enabled file sharing' ; Login settings 'allow anonymous access' ;
permission 'allow other users apply changes' Ticked on Both machines (hence the link above to get here)
the main user folder 'shared files' is shared, although in permissions i haven’t as of yet delved into changing it to a samba share as i think i have other issues that come before this.
load SMB4K on both machines:
mounted shares = none (understandable perhaps)
Network search = nothing, manual entry doesnt work
network neighborhood = nothing, win7,lappy,ubuntu all on same IP range and workgroup
no visibility at all of any other linux machine ?
both can ping each other (win7 also ping able)
at one point in time windows 7 could be accessed by mint but apparently there was a windows update that broke this for win7 home prem users and a manual reg fix was needed which i tried and it didn’t like it.
now i can see the windows network on mint but i get failed to retrieve shares, furthermore on ubuntu i can see the windows network but it asks me for username and password with workgroup which is 100% correct but it doesn’t take the credentials??? next time i boot ubuntu the windows network is no longer visible.
surely, this cant be so hard? i must be missing something really simple, which i actually thought might just be the 'enable file and print sharing' which again should really be on as a default with Apache installed for smb4k
what a mess. microsoft know they are highly incompatible with other O/S`s on purpose and Linux network and sharing support is still too complex for the new / mid user.
ANY help appreciated.
the same reason i keep crawling back to windows apart from steam games is that im completely stuck on network and sharing with linux. My ideal is to use a nice linux o/s as my NAS with shares for windows/ps3/xbox/mint laptop.
i wont go into all the different initial combinations of problems ive tried to eliminate like physical network and trying different O/S builds but a simple thing like seeing another pc on the network is something i cant do with linux.
and it should be simple! yet i see threads on the ubuntu bug fix section from late last year with no confirmed fix about no file and print sharing active and not having the packages needed in the first place to run it! y'know 2011 and this stuff is still wrong in the newest ubuntu !
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-user-share/+bug/536766
surley, given the multiple devices people have now at home it should be as intuitive as a windows 'homegroup' they concentrated on 'ubuntu one' before this!
enough waffling, my problem then...
2 x PC
2 x Linux Distro :
1 = Linux mint 9 all the latest updates with apache2.2 libs installed.
1 = Linux Ubuntu 11 beta all the latest updates with apache2.2 libs installed.
Both set to "HOME" workgroup in SMB.conf
Both smb4k installed
Both 'enabled file sharing' ; Login settings 'allow anonymous access' ;
permission 'allow other users apply changes' Ticked on Both machines (hence the link above to get here)
the main user folder 'shared files' is shared, although in permissions i haven’t as of yet delved into changing it to a samba share as i think i have other issues that come before this.
load SMB4K on both machines:
mounted shares = none (understandable perhaps)
Network search = nothing, manual entry doesnt work
network neighborhood = nothing, win7,lappy,ubuntu all on same IP range and workgroup
no visibility at all of any other linux machine ?
both can ping each other (win7 also ping able)
at one point in time windows 7 could be accessed by mint but apparently there was a windows update that broke this for win7 home prem users and a manual reg fix was needed which i tried and it didn’t like it.
now i can see the windows network on mint but i get failed to retrieve shares, furthermore on ubuntu i can see the windows network but it asks me for username and password with workgroup which is 100% correct but it doesn’t take the credentials??? next time i boot ubuntu the windows network is no longer visible.
surely, this cant be so hard? i must be missing something really simple, which i actually thought might just be the 'enable file and print sharing' which again should really be on as a default with Apache installed for smb4k
what a mess. microsoft know they are highly incompatible with other O/S`s on purpose and Linux network and sharing support is still too complex for the new / mid user.
ANY help appreciated.
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