Windows 11 can't connect to Ubuntu samba shares?

[kenne76]

I have problem to connect from Windows 11 to my sambashares on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTSbut to my sambashare on Linux raspberrypi 6.1.21-v8+ the connection works.

When I tested with Windows 10 I was able to connect both Ubuntu's and RaspberryPi's samba shares without problems.
Raspberry Pi has Samba version 4.13.13-Debian installed and Ubuntu has Samba version 4.18.6 installed.

Can someone help me with this issue?

[Morbius1]

Way more information is required to answer that question but first .....

Find the ip address of your Ubuntu machine:

hostname -I

Then in Win11 open explorer and enter:

\\the-ip-address-you-got-from-above\share-name

What error message do you get?

The information required to make more than a guess would be the output of these commands in Ubuntu:

testparm -s

net usershare info --long

hostname

[kenne76]

With ip adress or hostname.local (eg. ServerPC.local) it works, so this solution is enough for me.

[colin020]

I have the same problem.

All other PC's on our network connect without error but, the single Win 11 PC just chokes on it with errorcode 0x80004005

[Morbius1]

0x80004005 is Microsoft's "We have no idea what the hell the problem is" error message.

To rule out a host name resolution problem:

[1] Make sure avahi is installed on Ubuntu so you can do what kenne76 did:

sudo apt install avahi-daemon

[2] And for Win10/11 to be able to "discover" your Ubuntu server under Network in explorer install WS-Discovery in Ubuntu:

sudo apt install wsdd

If that does nothing for you your issue is unrelated to the original question and you might want to start your own topic.