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

[Kirk Bocek]

On 10/7/2015 10:56 AM, Joseph DeGraw wrote:
> On 10/07/2015 10:37 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>

$ testparm
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)
WARNING: The "null passwords" option is deprecated
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[area1]"
...
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions
...

Got a little cleanup to do myself.