So I went through the installation process and and thought everything was coming along. I could have full access to files on the the linux box from the vista machine, but from the linux to vista things were not working so well.
So during the installation process I also installed nautilus - shared package. Nautilus only once showed the 3 computers on my network; linux and two vista. When it was showing the vista machine I could click on it but it would show an empty folder.
So this hasn’t worked in while and I could not replicate it, not even with a removing and re-installing. The other way I would try to navigate to the computer was using a web browser.
When I navigate to SMB:/// it shows the workgroup. When I try to click on workgroup it tries to open/save it like its a file, well that won’t work. So I tried a different way by actually typing SMB://workgroup/ and it works showing all 3 computers. So then I entered SMB://vistapc/ and it listed the shared files so cool. I put in SMB://vistapc/sharedfile and hit enter and… nothing. I try SMB://vistapc/Users and it works, i can fully navigate Users by using a browser.
It seems that I have some sort of problem with nautilus and something wrong on vista permissions or authentication, although I made sure to temporarily turn password sharing off. I recently reinstalled and configured samba but with the same results but it never showed the computers in nautilus.
Does anyone have any advice or have had a similar experience?
Looks like Samba/Suse is having trouble resolving names on the network and/or also Nautilus seems to be having a problem. Nautilus had a networking bug in 11.0 and vista and Samba didn’t talk well until openSUSE 10.3 (with upgrades).
So here are three questions to get some background information on those things:
Which version of openSUSE are you using and which Window Manager (Gnome?)?
Can you post here your Samba config file smb.conf from /etc/smb.conf?
Is the Samba naming daemon running? (sudo /usr/sbin/rcnmb status)?
Thanks for the reply, sorry to leave out information like that.
I am running 11.1 with gnome.
My samba version is 3.2.7-11.2.1-2080-SUSE-CODE11.
Yes service nmb is running.
Here is my global from /etc/samba/smb.conf: i have made many changes and just recently reverted it to is earliest form (I didn’t backup the original shame)
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = Samba1
name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins
local master = yes
os level = 33
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
printcap cache time = 750
cups options = raw
map to guest = Bad User
include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
#logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile
#logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile
#logon drive = P:
usershare allow guests = Yes
So there is a bug with nautalis in 11.1? That seems to be my main issue.
I use KDE4. I installed Nautilus and find it’s behaving badly similar to what you described. KDE’s Konqueror and Dolphin browsers work fine for network browsing but Nautilus for me doesn’t. I’m really surprised that I haven’t noticed this problem reported by others in 11.1 to date.
I would say it is a bug in Nautilus in 11.1, and there was a similar bug in 11.0. What a shame. I recommend that you search the Novell bugzilla for 11.1 & Nautilus and see if there is a resolution or at least some more information – perhaps report the bug yourself.
I just booted up an xp machine on the LAN and the problem doesn’t extend to xp. Nautilus browses xp just fine in 11.1 for me. Seems to be only a vista problem.
Thanks for your testing swerdna. When I was searching for the solution before I posted, I guessed that you would be then one that would helped me after I made my post;).
I installed dolphin and it works just fine. I would make it my default file manger if it would inherit my gtk theme haha. I checked on bugzilla and I couldn’t find anything regarding this issue. I’ll report it later.