gnome cant access windows network.

[t94xr]

HI, I cant get gnome to 'find the windows network'

Its WORKGROUP and smb.conf is configured for WORKGROUP

And my samba shares work fine, externally on the network to get around this problem for the moment, I've created a guest and login share so i can share and still retain some network accesssability to the system

but I need windows networking sorted, i cant see the netywork.
If this is a bug, can get someone get it sorted, i've gone thru everything. I've even reinstalled Ubuntu 6.10 from a cd in attempts to think it could have been a problem i created.

I can ensure its a distro problem as I have a linux server - with samba setup and accessable to the network fine, xp has it mounted and i can access it with ease, but not from this laptop with this ubuntu 6.10

Anyone able to help?

[felixjmm (devilfelix)]

hi, i have the same problem, but i know how to live with it!

i will tell you what is hapenning to me so you can decide if it solves your problem

I have 3 computers in a wired-lan at my home. My PC with ubuntu and others with XP. Network Workgroup is perfectly configure in all machines but when i open the network place folder in the ubuntu pc i can´t see the others pcs. So i don´t have connectivity to my lan!!! which is not desirable

Trying and trying how to solve this problem i found a simple solution (is a little Annoying but works).... belive it or not, aparently ubuntu doens´t save the workgroup that you specified when you configured samba.

What i do it this, go to SYSTEM-ADMIN-NETWORK then go to the tab called GENERAL and write again your workgroup and the name of the computer, then save this with a name (could be Home or default) and then apply the changes and exit, after that you will be able to see all your network. after you reboot or powerdown you pc you will have the problem again, but this time you just have to go to SYSTEM-ADMIN-NETWORK and load the configuracion you saved before (called Home or default) and apply the changes again.

I dont know why is this happens ... but i know how to live with...

[The Pinny Parlour (thepinnyparlour)]

Hi,

Many thanks mate will look into what you have written.

Regards,
Ian

On 02/05/07, felixjmm <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>
> hi, i have the same problem, but i know how to live with it!
>
> i will tell you what is hapenning to me so you can decide if it solves
> your problem
>
> I have 3 computers in a wired-lan at my home. My PC with ubuntu and
> others with XP. Network Workgroup is perfectly configure in all machines
> but when i open the network place folder in the ubuntu pc i can´t see
> the others pcs. So i don´t have connectivity to my lan!!! which is not
> desirable
>
> Trying and trying how to solve this problem i found a simple solution
> (is a little Annoying but works).... belive it or not, aparently ubuntu
> doens´t save the workgroup that you specified when you configured samba.
>
> What i do it this, go to SYSTEM-ADMIN-NETWORK then go to the tab called
> GENERAL and write again your workgroup and the name of the computer,
> then save this with a name (could be Home or default) and then apply the
> changes and exit, after that you will be able to see all your network.
> after you reboot or powerdown you pc you will have the problem again,
> but this time you just have to go to SYSTEM-ADMIN-NETWORK and load the
> configuracion you saved before (called Home or default) and apply the
> changes again.
>
> I dont know why is this happens ... but i know how to live with...
>
> --
> gnome cant access windows network.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104856
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> of the bug.
>

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[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducable with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Gutsy Gibbon. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Closing this report since no more information has been provided, feel free to re open it if you may test it with Gutsy Gibbon, thanks in advance.