My computers / drives attached to my network should be viewable here yet they are not.
However, if I type in the address directly I can view and access my shares.
e.g.
Hi, I have this same problem. Samba Client works OK, I can read shared files on Win XP PC and Linux PC. But on PC with 11.4 no Samba Server is running. I try rcsmb status from command line - no answer, no error message. I try rcsmb start - answer: done, but daemon is not running - see ps -A all other processes are shown. I try Yast2 - editing xined and so on - no resutl. I try reinstall Samba. I try smb.conf from other PC with older Linux - no effect.
I use Dolphin too - selecting Network and Add shared directory - select Disk in Windows network and instert name of this share (documents), IP address (192.168.1.4) and shared directory (/documents). This works OK.
Best regards! Pavel
I just found the solution (at least to my problem) in the Russian forum.
It seems there is some kind of conflict between samba and apparmor.
Disabling / removing apparmor I am able to start smb and have full access to everything
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> I just found the solution (at least to my problem) in the Russian
> forum.
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> It seems there is some kind of conflict between samba and apparmor.
> Disabling / removing apparmor I am able to start smb and have full
> access to everything
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farcusnz;
This is a known problem with AppArmor. There was a regression with AppArmor on
11.4 that causes smbd and nmbd to abort. Go to
YaST>NovellAppArmor>AppArmor>Control Panel>Set Profile Mode and set both
usr.sbin.smbd and usr.sbin.nmbd to complain rather than enforce. You will
discover that some portion of AppArmor continues running if just disabled.
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
I am having a similar problem on 11.4 but am using a straight dolphin connect to a nas. Haven’t touched appparmor or anything else and cifs transfers work to a certain extent. Samba to a lesser extent… Samba was also rather slow finding connections and parsing directory structures from within an application. The dolphin connection is instantaneous. I gained functionality eventually by enabling kde’s auto mounter. To get that to mount the nas I had to enable nfs on the nas - but get this - all transfers are via cifs. KDE’s auto mounter also results in a 10’s of seconds dead desktop following log in.
Before making the changes suggested on here to see if they have any effect do any of you open and save files to another machine from within a none kde application such as libre office? I have found that this aspect will just not work at all where as kwrite for instance can save to, save as, click launch and open files on the nas which is effectively running samba. I have sort of localised this problem to kde by the content of some of it’s .so files but these posts make me wonder,
One other point. I asked about this on a local lug and one person responded. Seems autofs should really be used for this sort of thing. This uses the kernel auto mounter and has the advantage that any connection that isn’t there any more just results in an empty folder on a client machine. Autofs is installed by default on 11.4 - well it was in my case. Another similar package is amd.
Yast -> Novell AppArmor -> AppArmor Control Panel,
Click on Set profile modes (Configure) button,
Highlight the entries ‘usr.sbin.nmbd’ and ‘usr.sbin.smbd’ in turn and, for each, click the Toggle Mode button to set the mode from ‘enforce’ to ‘complain’.
Click Done, OK etc etc.
Haven’t tried it myself as I just removed apparmor altogether.
I usually do remove it on an Opensuse install but hadn’t got around to it on this occasion.
To be honest - I’m not even entirely sure what apparmor does.
It’s an additional security mechanism, which exists along side the firewall that restricts application capabilities. It’s a bit similar to SElinux, which is used on RedHat.
