Sorry this is so long-winded and seems to lack direction. We'll get there.
Ok, now i've read your report it's a bigger network than i first assumed - sorry about that. Also the problem has been going on longer than i assumed and various people haven't been able to find the pattern or cause. All the more annoying for you, sorry about that too. A few questions out of curiosity... Is the server a Windows or Linux/Unix one? Can the server see the machines but the machines can't see the sever? (or is it the other way around?) Can the machines normally see each other and does that stop too? It's quite possible that these questions didn't vaguely cover what system you have set up but i'd be interested to know. At the moment i only know that you have 8 machines with 6 of them on Ubuntu. I don't even know if your system includes a server. Note that Windows machines don't seem to realise they can't see a share that has just dropped out and happily keep the label on display even weeks after it's no longer accessible - double-clicking on it might show that it can't really read the folder it says is there. Quite a useful feature if the vanishing act was only temporary i guess. When next the problem occurs on just one machine try opening a terminal window on it and login as root (type su and the root-password of course) then do: cd /etc/init.d Ls actually that should be a little L. In there should be something called 'networking' or something very close to that. Type that in with --help just after it as in: networking --help Hopefully there should be an option to 'restart' or 'reboot' so try something like: ./networking restart the ./ is important. The command should be exactly as i typed it but you may be using a package other than 'networking' and that may prefer the qualifier 'reboot' to the term 'restart' although personally i tend to think of 'reboot' as being switching the entire machine off and on again which should be completely unnecessary. It should be the same command for all your Ubuntu machines as i guess they were all setup the same, presumably at about the same time? -- Shares disappear from Nautilus weekly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313379 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
