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tsnake
2008-05-25, 11:14 AM CDT
Yesterday morning I was running FC5 and had my samba shares working fine. I connect to the box via XBMC and other PCs in the house. I upgraded to F9 and ever since, my host machine isn't even browseable as part of the network.

I checked the smb.conf file and it has the appropriate workgroup and the shares are the same, but when I browse the network, this machine doesn't show up any longer.

Samba is running, and I even restarted samba for good measure.

I mainly use webmin to manage things and it looks normal to me, pretty much as I remember it before the upgrade, so I',m not sure what to even look for.

In XP, if I manually use the IP of the machine I can at least get acknowledgment of it, but then it loops asking for a username/password, though previously I didn't need to enter those.

I did a search for others with the same issue and didn't see the same thing come up.

I'm at a loss.
thanks for any guidance.
xfn
2008-05-25, 11:54 AM CDT
I did a search for others with the same issue and didn't see the same thing come up.

Here,

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=189429

look like the same problem
bbfuller
2008-05-25, 02:50 PM CDT
Hello tsnake

There is one major difference between the samba packages distributed with F5,6 and 7 and those in F8 and 9.

In the earlier packages starting "smb" also started "nmb".

In the more recent packages "smb" and "nmb" need to be started separately.

That is not to say it will solve your problems. A lot of people are having trouble with network browsing at the moment.
tsnake
2008-05-25, 03:03 PM CDT
Hello tsnake

There is one major difference between the samba packages distributed with F5,6 and 7 and those in F8 and 9.

In the earlier packages starting "smb" also started "nmb".

In the more recent packages "smb" and "nmb" need to be started separately.

That is not to say it will solve your problems. A lot of people are having trouble with network browsing at the moment.

I was about to try that out (start nmb itself) when I tested my connection. It worked fine. All I have done since last trying was get rid of xorg.conf (which was making it so that hardly any of my software would even load) and restart. I can't figure out why it works now, but over the last 20 hours it did not.
marcrblevins
2008-05-27, 01:23 AM CDT
Try:

su -
chkconfig nmb on
chkconfig smb on

The next time your server gets rebooted, the nmb and smb would be started properly.