[mythtv-users] OT: Samba (?) Issue

[Kirk Bocek]

On 10/7/2015 7:05 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> I usually rely on other Linux resources for help with Linux stuff 
> that's not Myth related, but have come up empty this time. Does anyone 
> know what to do about this error message?
>
> I'm running mostly Ubuntu 12.04, but also have a Linux Mint laptop 
> (don't recall the version, but it's one that works on an older laptop, 
> vintage 2006). Until yesterday morning I was able to connect to other 
> machines in the house. Now, the icons for those machines are missing, 
> and when I double click on the Windows Network icon in a Nautilus 
> window I get a pop-up that says,
>
> Unable to mount location
> Failed to retrieve share list from server
>
> Searching the Internet turned up a number of recommendations, but they 
> have not helped. I tried restarting smbd, and nmbd, with no change. I 
> tried restarting the machine with no improvement, either. My wife has 
> a Win-7 machine, and I can see and transfer files from one of my 
> Ubuntu machines while sitting at her machine.
>
> Where is the "share list" kept? And which machine is the "server", or 
> does each machine serve as it's own server?
>
> Hints on where to look for how to solve this will be appreciated.
>

I had something similar on my mythbackend host. Adding this:

     Max Protocol = SMB2

to the global section of smb.conf solved my problem. Another user here 
had a similar problem and this fixed it at least for awhile in his case.