Oneiric network browse mount failed to get share list

[jerrylamos]

1 July updated Oneiric Ocelot network browse can detect other pc's on the net but "mount failed to obtain share list from server". Cannot see any files on the other pc's on the net.

Narwhal, Meerkat, Lucid, ... mount with no problem between same pc's. (multi booted) and share files successfully. For that matter, Narwhal can see files on Oneiric and copy them O.K.

Jerry

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: mount 2.19.1-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-2.3-generic 3.0.0-rc4
Uname: Linux 3.0-2-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jul 1 19:48:20 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110619)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: util-linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

Much better results from a forum note by Morbius1

Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and add to the [global] section the following line:

name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins

Can at least Network browse myself and a Windows system. Still working on another Oneiric on the same network.

Jerry

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

Problem still exists on Beta 2.

Tried tower, notebook, netbook.

All three run "browse network" fine "out of the box" on Narwhal, Meerkat, Lynx LTS, ...

All three "browse network" fails after spinning and spinning several minutes. smb.conf has this line commented out:

: name resolve order = hoast lmhosts wins bcast

Removing comment no help. My conclusion: Ocelot never even gets to bcast or even tries it.

Change Oneiric Ocelot to:
name resolve order = bcast

works fine.

I don't think "out of the box" Ocelot is going to work for people like me with netbook, tower, notebook on a local network.

Not helpful for expanding the use of Ubuntu to more people.

My opinion, anyway.

Why was the default for "browse networks" changed on Ocelot? It was working fine on Narwhal, Meerkat, Lynx LTS apparently defaulting to "bcast".

Thanks, Jerry