Many thanks to Cowboy and others for their information and help. I followed the advice and the problem now appears fixed! Much appreciated, James L.
> On Thursday 15 December 2011 05:11:35 am James Laurence wrote: > > Plus another share from the same Rivendell PC pops up in the WinXp > > workgroup, but not the 'rdtransfer' one. > > The quick and dirty way to solve this would be to link your > rdtransfer directory to something under one of the > shares that does show up. > > > But the sharing of that folder gave me problems, even when logged in as > > root. > > Basically when I press the button saying 'Configure File Sharing', it greys > > out for 3 secs (as if it's doing something) but then comes back exactly as > > before and looks at me. No further dialog whatsoever. > > It would appear that it hasn't shared a thing because 'rdtransfer' doesn't > > appear under the workgroup in the WinXp machine. So there's no folder to > > try > > to map in WinXp. > > Press the button ? > I've no idea what that might be, but at lower level.... > > You should have a smb.conf in /etc/samba > In that file, find a block for a share that *does* work. > It should look something like... > [src] > comment = SourceFiles > path = /usr/src > valid users = curt > guest ok = Yes > max connections = 2 > hide dot files = No > fstype = ext3 > > ( this is an example from one of my systems ) > > Copy that block, then in the copy change only the relevant > lines to be what you need them to be. > You may have more or fewer lines. > > Now, restart samba ! ( smbd ) > You may also need to restart the name daemon separately > depending on your OS. ( nmbd ) > > Now, the share may still not appear. That's a windows-ism. > Windows does not query the server to show the shares. > It queries the windows master browser cache, which doesn't > query the server except at log-on, or at a forced refresh. > You can do a forced refresh by typing the url for the share > in a windows explorer ( not the web browser ) path line, such as > //server/newshare > If that fails ( it also queries the master browser ) then you're > left with the "start" "search" thingy in windows. > That *does* query the target server, and *may* add the result > to the master browser cache, or it may not, in which > case the windows universal fix ( reboot ) might be your only > option. It may take a while, as it also first queries the windows > master browser cache before querying the target machine. > Note that you MUST have restarted nmbd on the *nix machine > before any of the convoluted windows stuff. > > -- > Cowboy > > http://cowboy.cwf1.com > > "He flung himself on his horse and rode madly off in all directions" > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
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