Samba headaches

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So I installed samba from the app store, and I can not see the default shares on my windows computers, so I used apt-get to install smbclient to check, and got this.

osmc@osmc:/etc/samba$ smbclient -L 192.168.1.126
Enter osmc's password:
Connection to 192.168.1.126 failed (Error NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED)
osmc@osmc:/etc/samba$ smbclient -L localhost
Enter osmc's password:
Connection to localhost failed (Error NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED)
osmc@osmc:/etc/samba$ smbclient -L 0
Enter osmc's password:
Connection to 0 failed (Error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL)
osmc@osmc:/etc/samba$ iptables -L

I check the log files at /var/log/samba/log.smb and nmb and they show no error messages. I am pulling out what little hair I have left trying to get this to work. Any ideas/help would be greatly appreciated.

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You wouldn’t need to install samba to see shares on a networked Windows PC. I usually set up the workgroup in System|services (you need Advanced or Expert set) to see this, I think.

If you’re talking about shares on your Pi running OSMC being seen from Windows, then it is a known weakness that Windows doesn’t often show them, BUT, if you get up Explorer in Windows (NOT Internet Explorer), and put \ \192.168.1.126 in the address bar and hit return (if that was the Pi IP address), you should see them.
Derek

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If valid users is provided in smb.conf cross check the smbpasswd
Check the hosts file.

4

Avoid Homegroups.

Sam

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I agree - even in Windows you can have problems, especially with older versions.
Derek

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Thanks, after some more work I managed to get to see the shares.

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can we learn what you did to see them or is it goverment secret?

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Is what I did, I marked it as the solution in the thread too. =)

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damn. i am still trying for this. i have 3 linux installations and they appear normally but i haven’t manage to with raspberry.

and by the way man really thank you for the answer (even if from my stupidity i never saw the marked solution.)

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this might help you, [SOLVED] Ubuntu/Samba not showing in Win7 Network Places, but accesable via \\server\sharename

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done that already. And i have already tried with both dhcp server and static ip (right now working with static).

Unfortunattely no go for me. the only way up to now is
\ \ip_address
or
\ \hostname

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another option is NFS, you could just map the shares you want, and not have to worry about finding them. I use NFS to map my media shares to my other HTPCs, but samba for accessing the rest of the OS to copy file between machines, that I can’t use scp

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not a bad idea at all. thanks