[mdlug] Samba issues.

[R Kannan]

Thanks for all those who tried to help.

Tony, I have uncommented browseable.

Bob, All of the tests below seem OK.

Now I can access the share from a windows 7 laptop using IP address.
However, it does not appear when I search the networks (discovery). The
ultimate aim is to share this with a media player which needs windows
share / local file system for subtitles to work with video files.

I believe the problem of the server not showing up on discovery, is
something to do with 'nmbd'.

On 11/24/2014 08:07 AM, Bob wrote:
> Run testparm -s /etc/samba/smb.conf
>
> us your path to the samba config file, see if anything pops out.
>
> You can ping the server right?
>
> Run these on the server:
>
>  smbclient -L 'your host name' -N
>
>  nmblookup -U 127.0.0.1 'your host name'
>
> Simplify one of your shares to the bare minimum config, something like this
>
> # A sample share for sharing photos with others.
> [photos]
>    comment = Sample photos
>    read only = yes
>    locking = no
>    path = /Data/photos/samples
>    guest ok = yes
>
> Bob
>
>