samba/nautilus problem after 11.04 upgrade.

[willenfort]

Have just uppgraded to natty and my samba is borked.
The network is as follows.
1) my laptop running 11.04
2) cileserver running win XP with some open shares.
3) computer running xp with one open share.
4) computer running win7 with a passwordprotected share.
all comps in workgroup MATRIX
smb.conf is verified to be identical to the backed upp file before uppgrade (when everything worked)
------situation-----------------
if i try to brows "network/windows network" (smb:///) in nautilus i get an empty list.
if i browse "smb://MATRIX" I get "Failed to retrieve share list from server"
if i browse the XP comps (example: smb://MATRIX-nas or smb://192.168.0.3) i see and can connect to the shares
if i try to browse the WIN7 comp (by name or IP) i get "Failed to retrieve share list from server"
findsmb gives
*=DMB
+=LMB
IP ADDR NETBIOS NAME WORKGROUP/OS/VERSION
---------------------------------------------------------------------
192.168.0.5 TWO-FACE [MATRIX] [Unix] [Samba 3.5.8]
some relevant bits from smb.conf
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workgroup = MATRIX
server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
# wins support = no
; wins server = w.x.y.z
dns proxy = no
name resolve order = bcast lmhosts host wins


any help would be appreciated.

[DodgeV83]

Same issue here, haven't found a workaround yet...

[DodgeV83]

It didn't work for me, but you may have some luck following the steps in this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1169149

[DodgeV83]

I figured it out, seems I had to use the IP Address :redface:

I ended up just using hostname.microsoft.com for example, instead of just hostname. Upon further reading of your problem, it wasn't related to mine at all. Your issue probably deals with permissions on the Windows 7 machine.

Can your XP machines connect to the Windows 7 machine?

[willenfort]

Problem solved. for some reason my router was down a while and this triggered the win7 machine to try to be winsmaster and it did not play well with the win xp machines. one restart of the win7 machine later and everything is ok.

Now i only have to figure out how to get the win7 machine NOT to do that in the future
/C

[venik212]

Could you please say SPECIFICALLY where you typed the IP address? Since I have a Dynamic IP address, might it not be changed each time I reboot?