Samba shares are not accessible anymore in Feisty

[Luis Mondesi]

On 4/26/07, Andis Lazdinsh <andis.lazdins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I upgraded few days ago 2 computers previously running Ubuntu Edgy to
> Ubuntu Feisty and leave 1 computer with Ubuntu Edgy. Directly after
> upgrading everything was fine with samba shares and they were accessible
> on every computer.
> I did only updates provided by Ubuntu official repositories, but
> starting from yesterday I couldn't reach any samba share on Feisty
> computers from other Linux (Edgy and Feisty) machines  without any
> visible reasons. I can access those shared folders from windows xp and I
> can print using shared printers on Feisty machines from Linux and
> windows. All shares are still accessible on Edgy computer. Shares on
> Feisty can't accessed even from those computers, where they are
> physically located.
> I didn't install any new program and didn't remove anything. smb.conf
> files looks identical on Feisty and Edgy computers. I tried instructions
> provided in Ubuntu forums to improve smb.conf file, but it didn't help.
>
> I found only mention about /etc/samba/smbusers file which should contain
> user list. I tried to find it, but I don't have it both on Feisty and
> Edgy computers. In spite that authentication of users worked fine until
> now.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Andis



Did you make sure that there is no firewall  blocking your traffic? iptables
-nL

Can you ping the computer by IP? Use the IP to connect to it and not
whatever hostname/DNS resolution you might be using.

my .02


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