Hi and thanks for looking into this, I've updated to LinuxMint 11 and my wife Ginette is still on LinuxMint 9. My computer has Gufw 11.04.2. When I say enabled or disabled the rules are in RED when enabled and not shown when disabled. The computer of my wife Ginette has no firewall. Both machines are AMD64.
Initially I go to places/network and see my machine and Ginette plus windows. I click on Ginette then MyFiles and it says fail to mount. I close the network window. I disable the firewall and again click on places/networks, then Ginette/MyFiles and it mounts and I can access her files. I close the network window and enable the firewall and click on places/network then Ginette/MyFiles and I can access her files. Once I unmount MyFiles on Ginette from my Desktop (using the GUI right click) I have to start again by disabling the firewall. At one time I was using firestarter and gave up on it as the article in Linux the complete manual (with Live DVD Ubuntu 9.10) simply failed networking. When I moved to LinuxMint 11 I re-formatted my hard drive to get rid of old stuff including firestarter. Yes, I'm using the GUI when I can and a terminal when I must. (I've spoiled myself). I've never seen networking work without first mounting the remote with the firewall disabled. I've been confused due to all the articles, comments, solutions and variations found by Google on this subject and I've tried a few of them. I've also used ufw from the terminal to enter a few things, but I really do not know what ports I should have enabled. All I want is email, http, shttp and networking. This is what I have enabled on the firewall and attached is smb.conf. Anything else just email and I'll be happy to get back to you. Ian. ======================================================= stan@Ian ~ $ sudo ufw status [sudo] password for stan: Status: active To Action From -- ------ ---- 80/tcp ALLOW Anywhere 22 ALLOW Anywhere 443 ALLOW Anywhere 4662 ALLOW Anywhere Samba ALLOW Anywhere 135/tcp ALLOW Anywhere 445 ALLOW Anywhere 42 ALLOW Anywhere stan@Ian ~ $ ============================================================ On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 16:37 +0000, Scott Moser wrote: > Can you please clarify . > I think that your problem is: > - ubuntu 10.04 desktop system > - multiple other systems on the network (one of which is linux mint) sharing > files > - ubuntu desktop sometimes is not able to list network shares > > Questions: > - When you say "with the firewall disabled it usuallly shows my other home > comupters and does a mount", is "it" the ubuntu desktop system? > - What do you mean by "firewall disabled". What firewall are you using? > What settings does it have? > - Why do you think the firewall is at all related, when you seem to indicate > that it fails both with and without the firewall disabled. > > It seems like you're saying "usually it works if I disable firewall" > (I'm assuming that means on the desktop system) > > ** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > ** Attachment added: "smb.conf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/785171/+attachment/2183124/+files/smb.conf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/785171 Title: Samba works or may not work quite random To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/785171/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs