Hi Tom Sorry it took so long to get back to you!
Without listing each of the machines I have here. Other than 5 are running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy 32 bit, 1 is running Ubuntu Hardy 64 bit, 1 is XP-Home and 1 is XP-Pro, I also have a machine that is not part of the LAN except for a quick connection to the internet, it's used for accounting only and has XP-Pro-MCE. No matter how qwerky the Ubuntu machines are acting, both DOZE machines can always access ALL of the Ubuntu Machines. And yes I've actually opened files, not just relied on the mount showing, as I know they never disappear in the Doze. I DO NOT run what you consider a File Server, However, rather than hitting each machine for the files, I have finally combined ALL the Data from ALL the machines onto one computers hard drives and we call this a Data File Server. It has an internal EXT3 500 gig, rsynced to an external USB local NTFS 500 gig, and for redundancy we have an off-site 500 gig also NTFS that copies from the external USB NTFS. By doing it this, we only have to remember ONE IP number to enter in Go/Location when Nautilus is being it's nasty self. However, we still need to access the single shared folder placed on each computer quite often between each other during the day. I've mixed and matched and moved computers around quite a bit lately. Having a couple die on us and replacing them on a seniority type basis, arithmetic shift left, hi hi. I didn't get the new one last time, being nice to a long time employee, let them have it. But you know how that goes, when something new comes in, they all get past down one step. I did have an IT guy (who is really only familiar with Red Hat) over that has done a lot of work with Samba and he checked all of my configuration files, smb user files, networking, etc. and he could find nothing wrong. Whether Places/Network is showing the shares or not, all of the following work correctly: #1 smbtree will show each and every share. (NOTE: if smbfs is installed some are missing, so we don't have smbfs installed on any machine). #2 we can ping each and every machine under 0.15 in most cases. #3 we can in Network Tools where ping is located, use Traceroute and selecting each IP number it will show 1 HOP, the name of the originating machine and the name of the machine associated with the IP number we entered in 0.5 to 0.6ms for the machine we were looking at 0.2ms on the machine doing the looking. #4 when shares do NOT show in Places/Network, we CAN go to Go/Location and type in the IP address of the machine, eg: smb://192.168.1.100 and it will open each shared folder on that machine, including the printer or other devices that are shared just fine and we can then Click on the folder in the Nautilus window. When we do this, the Share we selected will MOUNT and appear on the Desktop until we select it and unmount it, or reboot. Without changing ANYTHING at all! If Places/Network was working for a couple of days just fine, it would just stop showing the shares. Sometimes this lasts for a couple of hours, sometimes for a few days. We ALWAYS select Places/Network in order to get TO the Go/Location bar. Another oddity about Nautilus is sometimes ALL the shares show under Places/Network WITHOUT having to select Windows Network and The name of our Workgroup Next. Other times, if we select Windows Network, then the name of our Workgroup, the shares will be showing there. When I'm setting up a NEW machine, before I configure the smb.conf file, the word WORKGROUP will appear after you select Windows Network. But as soon as I update the smb.conf file, that disappears, just as it should and only the Workgroup Name appears. All of our smb.conf files are identical (except for machine specific info at the end), as are the smbusers files (these are set up with both single names as well as user = user names (the IT guy did that). Places/Network not showing shares is NOT common among all the machines. In other words it don't happen to all of them at once. It might be one machine today, a different machine tomorrow, all of them working fine for three days. In other words, it's just random as to which machine is NOT going to show it's shares that day or for 2 or 3 day stretches, then it will be fine for a week or so. So, as you see, the single problem of shares NOT appearing Under Places/Network on all the machines ALL the time, but we can access every shared folder through Go/Location using the IP number, indicates to me anyhow that the Networks is fine, that Samba is working fine also, and the problem seems to be Isolated to the Nautilus Places/Network window. We do NOT have a server dedicated to Samba, as in the early days when you NEEDED one computer to be a HOST and all the rest to be CLIENTS. Maybe that is where I'm going wrong????? We just set up simple file sharing using Samba on each machine is all. We DO NOT use Static IP numbers, but they never change, since Samba remembers who's who. I also have no idea HOW to make ONE of the machines be the HOST or Nameserver, that's above my head without assistance. But I was told the machines take care of that chore themselves. One last oddity! A few months ago, rebooting a machine that was not showing shares three times in a row seemed to fix it. But we had a few upgrades that seemed to fix Places/Network for awhile. But then I found rebooting three times no longer does any good, so we quit doing that. The machines normally run 24/7, we don't shut them down at night! Only an upgrade that requires a reboot will cause us to reboot. And yes, I've tried stopping and starting Samba, stopping and starting the Network too. That has never helped. I wish I were more technical so I could give you better information. Oh, there is ONE thing that may or may not have to do with anything, BUT, we have learned that if we take the machine that Places/Network has been working on for the longest period of time, when another machine acts up, if we reboot the longest running machine, sometimes shares will start showing on the machine it stopped on. But this only works sometimes, and other times it backfires on us and the machine that WAS showing the shared, won't for a day or two. I know, CRAZY Problem and probably impossible to solve easily. One last thing, our LAN is HARDWIRED, no wireless anywhere on our system and all machines have always had access to the internet, that's one thing that has NEVER given us a problem since day one. And the Doze machines have NEVER failed to see the Ubuntu Shares either! I really feel it's a problem with Nautilus's Places/Network as Go/Location (which is in Nautilus) always works! OR PERHAPS instead of Nautilus, could it be the PANEL where we select Places, then scroll down to the Nautilus LINK? It highlights to read "Browse Bookmarked and local network locations" Maybe the INSTRUCTION to read the Shares does so before Nautilus opens????? But that wouldn't explain shares not showing after you select Windows Network and then your Workgroup Name. Nautilus File Browser finds everything ALL the time, except for shares, which are intermittent. Good Luck figuring this one out my friend! TTUL Gary -- 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
