Originally Posted by
dmizer
Thank you very much for that extremly helpful post. It seems the above is true even for my Hardy install. I'll look more closely at this and try to include it in the howto.
I surely don't know. It would have saved me a huge amount of trouble early on.
You're welcome.
There is one other issue that has been hashed out on several other threads and that is simply not having the network browse gui work at all or as expected. This happens to people suddenly, where it was fine one day and mysteriously stops working the next.
What I discovered and have submitted a bug report on:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389909
Is that when your ISP starts to use DNS redirection, you lose the ability to browse your local network. If you are using a simple home network, not on AD or other fancy stuff, the fix is very simple.
Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and:
change this:
Code:
# What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names
# to IP addresses
; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
to this:
# What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names
# to IP addresses
name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast host
Notice that host has been moved from 2nd place to 4th place and the leading semi-colon [;] has been removed.
After saving the file, log off and back on and that should do it.
If you are lucky enough to have Optimum Online as your ISP, you can opt out of DNS redirection by going here:
http://www.optimum.net/Article/DNS
Failing that, you may be able to find a different DNS server somewhere that does not use redirection to create a revinue stream for itself and switch to that.
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