[Bug 785171] Re: Samba works or may not work quite random

[ichapman@videotron.ca]

Hi and thanks for looking into this,
I've updated to LinuxMint 11 and my wife Ginette is still on LinuxMint
9.  My computer has Gufw 11.04.2.  When I say enabled or disabled the
rules are in RED when enabled and not shown when disabled.  The computer
of my wife Ginette has no firewall.  Both machines are AMD64.

	Initially I go to places/network and see my machine and Ginette plus
windows.  I click on Ginette then MyFiles and it says fail to mount.  I
close the network window.  I disable the firewall and again click on
places/networks, then Ginette/MyFiles and it mounts and I can access her
files.  I close the network window and enable the firewall and click on
places/network then Ginette/MyFiles and I can access her files.  Once I
unmount MyFiles on Ginette from my Desktop (using the GUI right click) I
have to start again by disabling the firewall.

At one time I was using firestarter and gave up on it as the article in
Linux the complete manual (with Live DVD Ubuntu 9.10) simply failed
networking.  When I moved to LinuxMint 11 I re-formatted my hard drive
to get rid of old stuff including firestarter.

Yes, I'm using the GUI when I can and a terminal when I must.  (I've
spoiled myself).  I've never seen networking work without first mounting
the remote with the firewall disabled.  I've been confused due to all
the articles, comments, solutions and variations found by Google on this
subject and I've tried a few of them.  I've also used ufw from the
terminal to enter a few things, but I really do not know what ports I
should have enabled.  All I want is email, http, shttp and networking.

This is what I have enabled on the firewall and attached is smb.conf.
Anything else just email and I'll be happy to get back to you.  Ian.
=======================================================
stan at Ian ~ $ sudo ufw status
[sudo] password for stan: 
Status: active

To                         Action      From
--                         ------      ----
80/tcp                     ALLOW       Anywhere
22                         ALLOW       Anywhere
443                        ALLOW       Anywhere
4662                       ALLOW       Anywhere
Samba                      ALLOW       Anywhere
135/tcp                    ALLOW       Anywhere
445                        ALLOW       Anywhere
42                         ALLOW       Anywhere

stan at Ian ~ $ 
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On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 16:37 +0000, Scott Moser wrote: 
> Can you please clarify .
> I think that your problem is:
>  - ubuntu 10.04 desktop system
>  - multiple other systems on the network (one of which is linux mint) sharing files
>  - ubuntu desktop sometimes is not able to list network shares
> 
> Questions:
>  - When you say "with the firewall disabled it usuallly shows my other home comupters and does a mount", is "it" the ubuntu desktop system?
>  - What do you mean by "firewall disabled".  What firewall are you using?  What settings does it have?
>  - Why do you think the firewall is at all related, when you seem to indicate that it fails both with and without the firewall disabled.
> 
> It seems like you're saying "usually it works if I disable firewall"
> (I'm assuming that means on the desktop system)
> 
> ** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Incomplete
> 



** Attachment added: "smb.conf"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/785171/+attachment/2183124/+files/smb.conf

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Title:
  Samba works or may not work quite random

Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  1)  When I click on Places/Network with the firewall disabled it usually shows my other home computers and does a mount on my desktop when I click them.  Once mounted I can enable the firewall and access their shared files from the mount.
  2)  With all firewalls disabled I often get only the windows network icon and it's empty.  It was working as per item 1 last week and all that I've done is to run the updates and updated all of a few hundred megs of stuff.  I've been fiddling with this on and off for ages and think I've got it fixed only to fall down next time I use networks.

       I'm running 10.4 by the way.  Ian.

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