Howto: Fix Windows share browsing issues

[RealG187]

mpg@mpg-desktop:~$ sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.239.1/Share /home/mpg/Desktop/Host -o credentials=/home/mpg/.auth.winbox.mpg,noperm,uid=mpg,gid=mpg
mount error(12): Cannot allocate memory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Now what's going on ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[zwdev]

OK, what works for me all the time is to install or reinstall samba and here is how I do it.
Fire up a Terminal window and;

sudo apt-get install samba

sudo smbpasswd -a USERNAME

(USERNAME,is your actual username.)

mkdir /home/USERNAME/test

Next, backup copy of the original smb.conf file to your home folder,

sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf ~

Now use your text editor of choice to edit smb.conf:

sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

Once smb.conf has loaded, add this to the very end of the file:

[test]
path = /home/USERNAME/test
available = yes
valid users = USERNAME
read only = no
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes

(Keep in mind no spaces between the lines and also that there should be a single space both before and after each of the equal signs.)

These settings will share the test folder we created earlier, and give your username and your username alone permission to read and write to the folder save smb.conf, exit the text editor, and restart Samba;

sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

Samba should be working now; try accessing the shared folder from another computer on your LAN.
This worked for my broken samba on 3x 9.10 upgrades and 4 x 9.10 fresh installs, the network has 2 x vin7 machines and 2 x 6p.

[RealG187]

The host is Windows...

[dmizer]

2. (optional) Make it so you can mount shares using sudo without having to enter your password. Do this by running sudo visudo from a terminal, and adding the following lines at the end:

fred	ALL=NOPASSWD:/bin/mount
fred	ALL=NOPASSWD:/bin/umount

Never ever ever perform step 2. This is a potentially large security risk. To make the share mountable by anyone without sudo, all you have to do is add the line to /etc/fstab, and include the "users" option like so:

//winbox/myfiles /media/myfiles cifs users,credentials=/home/fred/.auth.winbox.fred,noperm,uid=fred,gid=fred

Then this will work:

mount /media/myfiles

For more information on how to mount shares using CIFS (as Mr_Bumpy shows), follow the howto in the 2nd link in my sig, complete with troubleshooting tips.

[dmizer]

Those of you getting the "Unable to mount location. Failed to retrieve share list from server." error and are sure that your firewall is configured according to the directions under "Problem 3"; are any of you using Win7 in your network? If so, please see this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...4&postcount=34

[RealG187]

I tried adding the mounting commands to "~/.bash_profile"

[bapoumba]

Ping dmizer : http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...6&postcount=67
Cheers

[Fender56]

I've read through all 20 pages of this thread and can't get my problem resolved.

I have a clean reinstall of Ubuntu 9.04, a Fedora Core 8 samba server, an Ubuntu 9.04 samba enabled laptop, and two or three Windows XP boxes.

Before the reinstall, I was able to see everything from my desktop 9.04 box from Nautilus. Now, I can only see the other samba servers on the network.

I can attach to any machine via the smbclient cli, and through nautilus or firefox using smb://hostname with no problem.

I've followed (I think) every word of advice at the start of this thread to no avail.

I'm out of ideas at this point. Any other pointers would be appreciated.

Below is the output of findsmb. smbtree produced no output at all.

findsmb

*=DMB
+=LMB
IP ADDR NETBIOS NAME WORKGROUP/OS/VERSION
---------------------------------------------------------------------
192.168.15.5 TORINO [FAMILY] [Unix] [Samba 3.0.33-0.fc8]
192.168.15.8 GRANDPRIX [GRANDPRIX] [Unix] [Samba 3.3.2]
192.168.15.9 MUSTANG [FAMILY] [Unix] [Samba 3.3.2]
root@MUSTANG:/home/fender# smbtree
Password:
root@MUSTANG:/home/fender#

root@MUSTANG:/home/fender# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination


Config files attached.

[Fender56]

Well...

I don't know how, but it magically started working again.
Here's what I did, although I've done the same thing a half dozen times or more in the last 24 hours.

1. Uninstalled samba, samba-common, smbclients, fusesmb, smbfs, swat, winbind, and libsmbclient (I *think*).
2. Installed the samba4 counterparts of each.
3. Reboot
4. Ran some samba4-client commands: all failed in some way or other.
5. Uninstalled all the samba4 pieces I could find.
6. Reinstalled all pieces that were uninstalled in step 1
7. Reboot.

Boom. Magic.

I'm not real sure, but I might not have uninstalled fusesmb in previous cycles. If not, that is maybe what did it this time. I hate it when things start working again and I can't confidently identify why.

I'm a little reluctant to reboot now.

[IstvanL]

http://sidux.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-14163.html

Try this solution. It helped me solving the same issue.
Cheers