Yes sir, still seeing it. Seems to be an issue when you've got at least two servers on the same subnet. Tell it to use 'bcast' before the system default (usually the isp's dns), in each smb.conf; and it works.
There are several potential issues at work here. My first experience with SAMBA was with 11.04. After spending several hours on the Samba website learning about it and smb. It's clear that the changes necessary to make it "just work" in a gui browser necessitate a non-stock configuration for SAMBA. That is to say, knowing SAMBA as it was designed isn't enough to understand the Ubuntu implementation. This confuses the issue if one is trying to troubleshoot but has no access to documentation of what they did to make it work in Ubuntu. Another issue is the same old tired monster. The reason why so many Ubuntu veterans scream the battle-cry: "Do A Clean Install!". Human error. Every version upgrade I've done has carried some problem or other that is most likely due to either a maintainer error in a previous revision, an error in the update itself, or lack of proper communication between maintainers (that documentation I mentioned earlier). So, somewhere along the development pipeline no one remembers that a smb- native server uses "bcast" to get what it needs: name-address resolution. Funny thing is, I went over 30 years of my life knowing next to nothing about tcp/ip. Then my first stab at SAMBA fails. Less then half-way through Tcp/Ip for Dummies, and I figured out the problem. It only took $30 and 80 pages....LOL -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/592610 Title: Shared folders (through Samba) when following instructions sometimes does not work correctly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/592610/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
