Samba does not see windows workgroup

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#1

Dear All,

After installing Samba as per procedure, Samba does not see Windows “workgroup”. Any Ideas?

Thanks

Larry

#2

On Sat August 15 2009 09:46 pm, ltorresan wrote:

>
> Dear All,
>
> After installing Samba as per procedure, Samba does not see Windows
> “workgroup”. Any Ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Larry
>
>
ltorresan;

Have you read:
http://opensuse.swerdna.org/suselanprimer.html
and for more information:
http://opensuse.swerdna.org/susesambaserver.html

The most common problem is not opening the firewall for the Samba ports and
broadcasts. For Windows machines to access you Samba Server you also need to
add users. In a terminal window use:


su
smbpasswd -a <username>

If you are still having problems, it would help if you posted the contents
of /etc/samba/smb.conf.

P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green

#3

I had the same problem. We have a Win XP desktop that has all of the family photos. I wanted to access it with my laptop running OpenSuse.

Fixed the problem by adding Samba Client and Samba Server to the allowed services in the firewall.

Here are the detailed steps:

Go to Applications>System>YaST
Select Security and Users,
Click on the firewall icon.
Click on “Allowed Services”
Select “Samba Client” from the “Service to Allow” pull down menu.
Then click the “+ add” button.
Then finish up by clicking “next” and “finish”

I also added Samba Server so the WinXP machine could see the laptop too.
Hope this helps,
Bob

#4

Excellent, thank you for that - still applies to 11.4 too. Default is blocked for Samba, so adding Samba allowed me to see my home network just fine.

#5

On Tue May 31 2011 04:06 pm, robw wrote:

>
> Excellent, thank you for that - still applies to 11.4 too. Default is
> blocked for Samba, so adding Samba allowed me to see my home network
> just fine.
>
>
robw;

There is one new wrinkle with 11.4. There was a regression with AppArmor on
11.4 that prevents smbd and nmbd from starting. You should go to:
YaST>Novell AppArmor>AppArmor Control Panel>Set Profile Mode and set both
usr.sbin.smbd and usr.sbin.nmbd to complain rather than enforce.

P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green