samba doesn't work

Could you check the status of the samba daemons:
$ sudo status nmbd
$ sudo status smbd

Please describe your scenario in more detail ("samba is not working" is not enough, given how many different uses of samba are possible). Are you sharing folders on workstations ? Setting up a samba file server ? Accessing remotely-shared folders ?

Based on that, please provide the info requested at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSamba

Thierry,

Sorry for the incomplete information - I'm new to this bug reporting
business.

Since submitting the fault report, I found that it wasn't a problem with
samba after all.

I have a desktop computer running Ubuntu that has some printers
connected and 4 laptop computers, 2 of which run windows XP and 2 with
vista. I use samba to backup laptop files to the Ubuntu box and for
sharing the printers to the laptops.

Prior to upgrading to 10.04, I could see the laptops via the
Places-Network-Windows Network.

After the upgrade, the Windows network was showing as empty.

After sending the error report, I found that I could connect to the
other laptops using Places-Connect to Server then in the dialogue box
typing in the name of the laptop. I can also access the computer using
firefox by typing the IP address as smb://ww.xx.yy.zz.

I sorted the problem out by following advice shown in this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1028321

in particular, I changed smb.conf as shown here:

"MOST IMPORTANT I change the way the priority for name resolution work
for samba:

name resolve order = wins hosts lmhosts bcast"

It was originally in there as:

name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast

I restarted samba using restart smbd and everything was working.

I am assuming that the smb.conf file was changed during the upgrade to
10.04 as everything was working beforehand.

Apologies for mis-filing the bug, but I hope it will be of use to others
who may have a similar problem.

Regards,

Wayne

Here's the status outputs:

smbd start/running, process 677
wayne@shuttlex:~$ sudo status nmbd
nmbd start/running, process 1163

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 12:33 +0000, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Could you check the status of the samba daemons:
> $ sudo status nmbd
> $ sudo status smbd
>
> Please describe your scenario in more detail ("samba is not working" is
> not enough, given how many different uses of samba are possible). Are
> you sharing folders on workstations ? Setting up a samba file server ?
> Accessing remotely-shared folders ?
>
> Based on that, please provide the info requested at:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSamba
>
> ** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
>
> ** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

No problem, thanks for keeping us posted !