Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs

[wilberfan]

Successful pings both by netbios AND ip... The Dell machine is now DHCP (I don't think it was last night when I connected successfully!)

I'm not sure what kind of errors you're asking about. I get this when I try to ssh to the Dell:

ssh: connect to host DELL-Ubuntu port 22: Connection refused

I'm back to the lack-of-prompt when I try my mount command...

[dmizer]

can you connect to either machine from windows?

[wilberfan]

can you connect to either machine from windows?

Yep. Just connected from Xp (on the AMD) to Ubuntu (on the Dell). Quick n' easy!

[dmizer]

okay ... try this ... can you mount (using cifs) from the amd booted to ubuntu to the dell booted in windows?

[wilberfan]

okay ... try this ... can you mount (using cifs) from the amd booted to ubuntu to the dell booted in windows?

That would be a negatory. (But the Dell under XP connects like that [snapping fingers] to the AMD under Ubuntu.)

[dmizer]

alright ... i have a machine i can set up to install edgy. gimme a bit to see if i can't sort things out.

[wilberfan]

alright ... i have a machine i can set up to install edgy. gimme a bit to see if i can't sort things out.

I'll be REALLY interested to hear what you discover!

[dmizer]

I'll be REALLY interested to hear what you discover!

unfortunately ... i discovered absolutely nothing. i currently post from edgy. i installed the system, got all the updates, have the current kernel, and configured my system to mount samba shares line by line according to my howto and, after discovering that my server's smb.conf file had the wrong share directory, i was able to connect and view my shares right away.

i mounted both manually and via fstab, and everything worked just like it should. but i'm working with a completely stock install. zero tweaks with the exception of my cpu fan module, and configuring my gnome-panel the way i like it.

all i can think of at this point is firewalls? you had static ip before ... can you give me a bit of information on how you have your network configured? what kind of changes (networking and/or security) have you made to your system ... maybe i can duplicate your setup ... i really don't know what's holding you up, but i'd sure like to figure it out.

[wilberfan]

I don't think I've made any network tweaks to a 'stock' system!

I wonder if there's more network weirdness related to this specific hardware? I had an issue for awhile with my AMD machine, where it would only have internet connectivity if I selected the ethernet card that was NOT connected to the router!

There was a second card installed in a PCI slot, and when I first installed edgy, I could only connect to the web if I went into network settings and selected that PCI card--but the ethernet cable was physically plugged into the onboard eth0 card!!

I physically removed the PCI card, and reinstalled Edgy--that seemed to end that confusion? Of course, now I can't remember if that was the 64bit Edgy or (this) 32bit Edgy...

I have a D-Link DI-604 router that both machines are plugged into. No special modifications to that... I have a couple of port-forwarding settings for bittorrent, etc. I have no software firewalls installed (unless they come with the distribution).

I installed the kubuntu-desktop. I've added all the non-free codecs, etc, necessary to play back all my media files...

What kinds of tweaks would I have to have made to possibly be a factor?

[edit] I went back and looked--the ethernet card weirdness was with Freespire. But, still... There might be some hardware issues?

[wilberfan]

I just noticed that something has added three lines to the end of my smb.conf file:

[AMD-64Files]
path = /media/samba/
browsable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = no
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
force user = amdsignin
force group = amdsignin
available = no
public = no
writable = no

Is there something in Edgy that does that??