Unable to connect via Samba on Win 7 - The network path was not found

**kissa2001** · April 29th, 2014

Solution for this problem: Unable to connect via Samba on Win 7 - The network path was not found
("Error code: 0x80070035 The network path was not found" error message in the Windows 7 machine.)
is to allow an incoming connection in your Ubuntu firewall.

For example, I use ufw firewall, so I executed the command:

Code:

sudo ufw allow from 192.168.0.100

where 192.168.0.100 is the IP address of the Windows 7 machine.

Also, check that /etc/samba/smb.conf file has the "browseable = yes" uncommented. For example:

Code:

[nimbus]
    comment = Linux Mint
    path = /home/nimbus
    writeable = yes
    browseable = yes
    valid users = nimbus

(I could not send this reply to the original thread because I got the Sorry! This thread is closed! message.)

**tfrue** · April 30th, 2014

Have you added nimbus to smbpasswd file? If not, try and run:

Code:

sudo smdpasswd -a nimbus

and restart the smbd and nmbd service by running:

Code:

sudo service smbd restart;sudo service nmbd restart

Also, you might want to try and use a different directory instead of /home/nimbus, unless you are trying to set up usershares, but I would either make a new directory like: /share/nimbus/, or I would make a new directory under /media like: /media/nimbus. Also, make sure that you change the owner and group to nimbus and give it the proper permissions to allow read write execute on the directory.

Type:

Code:

sudo chown nimbus.nimbus /share/nimbus (Or /media/nimbus)
and
sudo chmod 775 /share/nimbus (Or /media/nimbus and you can refine the permissions if you want to finesse)

Good luck,
Chris

If that doesn't work, I would make the share completely open and start from the bottom and work our way up.

So I would remove valid users, and add guest = ok, read only= no. And re-run the restart code again.