[GRLUG] Windows network file shares with Ubuntu 12.10

[Alan]

On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 17:49 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 16:23 -0500, Alan wrote:
> > I'm having an issue with Ubuntu 12.10 and Samba Networking.
> > I've got some shares setup with Windows XP, Mandriva 2010 and Mageia 1.
> > I can access them all from each other and from my Android device.
> > I installed Kubuntu on one of my machines as a test but wasn't able to
> > browse my workgroup.
> > I tried Ubuntu with the same results.
> > I can connect to the Internet from the Ubuntu machine via the Mandriva
> > box. 
> > Any Ideas?
> 
> >From the workstations / devices that aren't able to browse the workgroup
> - does the server even see connection attempts from these nodes? 
Yeah they do.
> 
> What do you mean by 'browse the workgroup'?  Do you have WINS configured
> in the local samba or are you relying on broadcast?
Bcast
> 
> Can you directly access a volume on the server [ from nautilus, Ctrl-L,
> smb://myserver/myshare ] ?

Holy Expletive! 
How could it be so simple. smb://192.168.0.1/myshare.

It doesn't bother me that you now probably think that I 'm a total
idiot.
It bothers me that you may be right!

Thanks 
Alan
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