Comment 14 for bug 731976

Hi kwagga,

Is this a recent problem or does it happens since you have been using Ubuntu 10.10?

If this problem is recent, so I suggest you yo recover your LINUX with any IMAGE RECOVERY program (dd or CLONEZILLA or anything related) if you have an image of it...

MORE INFO: I also use Ubuntu 10.10 (also, I've installed Kubuntu 10.10 from repositories meta package "kubuntu-desktop") and both of them are DESKTOP editions... So, this problem can or not be Ubuntu specific because, in my case, the problem was solved with a recover of my Windows OS image to the problematic PC... You can try removing SAMBA packages (SAMBA, libsmbclient, etc...) and it's configurations with SYNAPTIC and try installing them with NAUTILUS (Select a path and try to configure it to be shared via SAMBA, so that NAUTILUS can install the proper packages and configurations again)...

PS: I don't know if with "purge" option of apt-get or SYNAPTIC can remove all configuration files from your PC because I had some programs that I purged with apt-get command and via SYNAPTIC either and some configuration files remained in my PC after the uninstall... Try to search your LINUX partition for samba configuration files (smb.conf ; etc) and remove them...

PS²: You also did the comment:

"The one strange thing I have noticed, that by default, connecting to the linux box, or any other machine for that matter, would normall allow you to see all the shares first, such as printers, etc. Then only when you go into the folders, it would ask you for your credentials. What's happening now, is that it asked for credentials immediately, the only credentials that seem to work was root, but then to access the folders, no credentials worked, even after I added root to those directory permissions."

The comment above leads me to think that this is a configuration problem because, like you said, the normal procedure when a remote PC accesses a UBUNTU SAMBA SERVER is to open it immediately without any authentication request and when the user try to access a path or printer, it asks for the authentication...

I hope I could help you,

André M.