samba - Aug 2020 - Recurring Error: The specified network name is no longer available

To answer you questions:
Win 10 to Samba, but what OS is Samba running on ?

Samba is running on a Centos 7 Server - UNIX

Can you connect from explorer to the 'Anonymous' share ?

I cannot connect. It gave me the error in the screenshot I sent you.


Have you created any Samba users on the Samba server ?

I have not created any user apart from 'root' of which I setup a
password for using the samba command.

Kind regards,
Gerard    On Friday, 14 August 2020, 13:20:48 UTC, Rowland penny via samba
<samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
 
 On 14/08/2020 14:08, Gerard Owusu wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> So I made an overall change to the config and removed the sambashare 
> entirely.
>
> I just want to have a basic connection before any further modification.
>
Fair enough, lets just get something straight, you are connecting from 
Win 10 to Samba, but what OS is Samba running on ?

Can you connect from explorer to the 'Anonymous' share ?

Have you created any Samba users on the Samba server ?

You shouldn't have to turn on SMBv1 on your Win 10 machine, but we will 
come to that once the basic connection is up and running ;-)

Rowland


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On 14/08/2020 14:35, Gerard Owusu wrote:
> To answer you questions:
>
> Win 10 to Samba, but what OS is Samba running on ?
>
> Samba is running on a Centos 7 Server - UNIX
It should work then
>
>
> Can you connect from explorer to the 'Anonymous' share ?
>
> I cannot connect. It gave me the error in the screenshot I sent you.
No, you said the error occurred when you tried to 'map' the share, that 
isn't quite the same.

Can you open 'Explorer' on windows and browse to the share, or can you 
type \\ip_of_samba_server\Anobymous into the top bar and connect ?
>
> Have you created any Samba users on the Samba server ?
>
> I have not created any user apart from 'root' of which I setup a 
> password for using the samba command.
Well delete that one, 'root' should not be a Samba user.

With 'map to guest = bad user', no Samba users and this share:

[Anonymous]
 ??????? comment = anonymous file share
 ??????? path = /samba/anonymous_shared_directory
 ??????? guest ok = yes
 ??????? guest only = yes
 ??????? read only = no

You should be able to connect to 'Anonymous' from any computer in the 
network, with any user.

If you cannot connect, try disabling selinux and see if that helps.

Rowland

On 14/08/2020 15:29, Gerard Owusu wrote:
> Hi Rowland,
>
> >No, you said the error occurred when you tried to 'map' the
share, that
> i>sn't quite the same.
>
> >Can you open 'Explorer' on windows and browse to the share, or
can you
> >type \\ip_of_samba_server\Anobymous into the top bar and connect ?
>
> So I stopped trying to map and did the above and got this:
That might possibly be your problem, you should be connecting to the 
shares name, not its path, try this instead:

\\199.188.204.72\Anonymous

Rowland