[SOLVED] SAMBA problems with Windows

[banderas20]

Hello guys,

I have just installed SAMBA in a Debian box. The only thing I have done has been edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and changed the workgroup so that it matched witch my Windows box.

Then I restarted the smbd service and tried to browse "Other locations" with the gnome File Explorer. It doesn't even show the windows machine.

¿What's wrong?

Thanks!

[arzgi]

Hello guys,

I have just installed SAMBA in a Debian box. The only thing I have done has been edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and changed the workgroup so that it matched witch my Windows box.

Then I restarted the smbd service and tried to browse "Other locations" with the gnome File Explorer. It doesn't even show the windows machine.

¿What's wrong?

Thanks!

I've never needed samba, lost my nerves to win95, formatted disk, and installed linux, and never looked back

But anyways, Debian Wiki is worth searching, and there is this:
https://wiki.debian.org/SambaServerSimple

[4D696B65]

Samba server is not needed to browse windows shares. Your problem is elsewhere.

[banderas20]

Samba server is not needed to browse windows shares. Your problem is elsewhere.

Yesterday I browsed windows shares with SAMBA. Today I tried uninstalling and installing and it doesn't work.

¿Where might the problem be?

Thanks!

[4D696B65]

gnome uses gvfs-backends to browse shares. Is it installed?

[banderas20]

gnome uses gvfs-backends to browse shares. Is it installed?

Yesterday I could without that package....

[CwF]

gnome uses gvfs-backends to browse shares. Is it installed?

Yesterday I could without that package....

This got me when I first built up a debian. Thunar worked every so often on whatever default install, that's no samba, no backends. I never did figure that out.

I did settle for gigolo +gvfs-backends +gvfs-fuse. Then when I added that seemingly redundant gigolo step it works every time.

Later on I found gigolo respects entries in /etc/samba/smb.conf without samba installed.

Who knows? It always works now.

[banderas20]

Hello.

I have been able to do it both ways. In the way Linux -> Windows I tried with smbmount, as several webs explain. However, I don't have that command neither can download it via the repositories.

The I tried with mount -t smbfs, but it didn't recognize the filetype.

If I issued apt-get install smbfs, the result was:

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Package smbfs is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  cifs-utils

I wanted to do it via samba packages, but it gave me no choice. Once I installed cifs-utils, the proper command worked like this:

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mount -t cifs //windows_host/folder /mount/point/ -o username=uname,uid=uname,gid=uname

Thanks for your help! And I hope this solution helps other people with similar issues.