Can not seem to get windows network to show on 11.4 M6 KDE release.
I did all the samba stuff including samba.conf and still no joy. You guys see your windows network?
It is working for me. I can browse the windows network without any problem, probably only because I am lucky 
Please find my smb.conf bellow
openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 6 of 6 (x86_64)
Kernel: 2.6.37-20-desktop
KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0)
Samba version: 3.5.6-6.1
I hope it helps
I am having the same problem. I have VMware loaded and running Win2k inside it. I can see the Win2k machine and my Printer Server -but- not the Linux machine. Primarily cause smb and nmb will not run. Complains about permissions, which are the same as always worked previously, on the files inside of /etc/samba. It can not read the smb.conf or the dhcp.conf… and probably the others but for now that is the two that it is complaining about. I’ve had this in the past with Milestone versions and the fix was to change the perms to 777. Haven’t tried that yet, but I will. Just thought of it as I was writing this.
Have fun,
Chuck
K will take a look at the perms. Tys.
btw this is interesting.
Suse11-4:/home/trip # rcnmb restart
Shutting down Samba NMB daemon Warning: daemon not running. done
Starting Samba NMB daemon startproc: exit status of parent of /usr/sbin/nmbd: 1
failed
Not sure why I can not restart rcnmb.
Ok, I just switched over to the 11.4 M6 and change the perms for /etc/samba to 777 and it did NOT help. I am still getting:
[2011/02/03 22:29:01, 0] lib/fault.c:250(dump_core_setup)
Unable to setup corepath for smbd: Permission denied
[2011/02/03 22:29:01, 0] smbd/server.c:1135(main)
smbd version 3.5.6-2486-SUSE-SL11.4-i386 started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2010
[2011/02/03 22:29:01.985165, 1] …/lib/util/params.c:513(OpenConfFile)
params.c:OpenConfFile() - Unable to open configuration file “/etc/samba/dhcp.conf”:
Permission denied
[2011/02/03 22:29:01.987239, 0] smbd/server.c:1150(main)
error opening config file
for both the nmb and the smb. Now what other kinds of permissions are there???
Thanks,
Chuck
Also unable to get smbd to run in openSUSE 11.4 M6. You can browse and get data FROM other samba clients presumable because nmbd is working. But you can not share anything to anyone else. I am using the same configuration that works under openSUSE 11.3 without any problems. I have the same Firewall ports open as normal, though Firewall settings never kept smdb from running before.
Thank You,
K thanks. Hopefully that will be sorted out on the next release.
The bug talks about a problem with apparmor. I don’t even have apparmor running and I still can not start smb or nmb. The complaint is about file permissions. Is this new version requiring us to us apparmor???
Well, as they say, open mouth, insert foot. Seems that I never find the correct answer till I complain about the wrong symptoms. I thought that I did not have apparmor running cause a …
ps -ef | grep apparmor did not find anything
-and-
rcapparmor stop was not understood.
re-grouping and looking in Yast2-> System Services (Runlevels) I found:
aaeventd and boot.apparmor running.
I stopped them both and then I was able to get smb and nmb running.
Sorry for the mistake.
Chuck
Well, as they say, open mouth, insert foot. Seems that I never find the correct answer till I complain about the wrong symptoms. I thought that I did not have apparmor running cause a …
ps -ef | grep apparmor did not find anything
-and-
rcapparmor stop was not understood.
re-grouping and looking in Yast2-> System Services (Runlevels) I found:
aaeventd and boot.apparmor running.
I stopped them both and then I was able to get smb and nmb running.
Sorry for the mistake.
Chuck
Very good chuck. I followed your advice in openSUSE 11.4 and sure enough, nmb is working now. You get my gold star award for the day (Gold Not Included).
Thank You,
Your Welcome James -but- credit the individuals before me for pointing out the apparmor problem in the first place. Only thing I had to do was find out how to stop it… once I found that it was running and I didn’t know it.
Yes disabling those services fixed the problem. Thank you.
A little slow on this, since RC2 is due out tomorrow… -but- the smb, nmb problem is still there in RC1. Matter of fact it is worse. I was not able to stop aaeventd. Well, I could stop it -but- it just restarted itself, or something else did. Hopefully, RC2 will have the correct fix. Either to keep it stopped or to correct the problem of killing smb and nmb.
Thanks
If you go to yast>samba server. Under the tab start-up you see “firewall settings” mark “open port in firewall”. Then say ok, this works for me!
I had the same problem getting nmb and smb started. after some searching I (finally) came across this thread. It solved the problem and i was able to see my computer on my machine and on another in the network.
That having been said, my concern is that an user new to openSUSE would not necessarily know about an issue with apparmor, or the need to fo to YaST–> System → system Services. they might opt for a different distro. (I thought about it!). I have an fan of openSUSE for over 10 years!. I still am but I trust this would have been solved. I am using the released 11.4.
Bob
I recently actualized to 11.4 and i had the same problem with samba server.
when i saw the reply that the problem was in apparmor, the first that i tried was to disable the apparmor and now it just works fine
you should try it! =)
sorry 'bout my english.