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...l as my /etc/nssswitch.conf file. I did have samba working for about two months, between my desktop and my fiance's windows 7 computer but after a samba update it stopped working. The config file was the same, but I started getting errors. They're below. Whenever I try to access anything on mellisa's computer now I get either "failed to retrieve share list from server: no such file or directory" or "failed to retrieve share list from server. Invalid argument. Please select another viewer and try again. That last one stumps me because it makes no sense. I thought there might...

hi Not just yet. I've set up a windows 10 instance on my desktop to test with. It's not activated so I've got a month to test, will probably only keep it around a couple of days. How is windows doing this? When I go to connect to mellisa's computer which is running windows 7, even with the workgroup name changed from the default windows finds it and connects. I try the same on linux and I get "cannot mount windows share. No such file or directory." It's maddening. I'm not complaining, I'm just curious....

...gmail.com> wrote: >> >> hi >> >> Not just yet. I've set up a windows 10 instance on my desktop to test with. It's not activated so I've got a month to test, will probably only keep it around a couple of days. How is windows doing this? When I go to connect to mellisa's computer which is running windows 7, even with the workgroup name changed from the default windows finds it and connects. I try the same on linux and I get "cannot mount windows share. No such file or directory." It's maddening. I'm not complaining, I'm just curious. Why...

...;>> Not just yet. I've set up a windows 10 instance on my desktop to >>>> test with. It's not activated so I've got a month to test, will >>>> probably only keep it around a couple of days. How is windows doing >>>> this? When I go to connect to mellisa's computer which is running >>>> windows 7, even with the workgroup name changed from the default >>>> windows finds it and connects. I try the same on linux and I get >>>> "cannot mount windows share. No such file or directory." It's >>&g...

...>> >>> Not just yet. I've set up a windows 10 instance on my desktop to >>> test with. It's not activated so I've got a month to test, will >>> probably only keep it around a couple of days. How is windows doing >>> this? When I go to connect to mellisa's computer which is running >>> windows 7, even with the workgroup name changed from the default >>> windows finds it and connects. I try the same on linux and I get >>> "cannot mount windows share. No such file or directory." It's >>> maddening...

...set windows up > for my fiance a lot, and I install it on my laptop periodically to > test > samba on to make sure it works like I've set it up. One thing I've > noticed is that it seems somehow able to autoconfigure most of this > stuff. If I change the work group name on mellisa's computer, a windows > installation on my desktop or another computer finds it and connects > with no problems, prompting for a user name and password. You mean for shares that were already configured previously and are now slightly changed on the "server"? > Samba doesn&...

...ws up >> for my fiance a lot, and I install it on my laptop periodically to test >> samba on to make sure it works like I've set it up. One thing I've >> noticed is that it seems somehow able to autoconfigure most of this >> stuff. If I change the work group name on mellisa's computer, a windows >> installation on my desktop or another computer finds it and connects >> with no problems, prompting for a user name and password. > > You mean for shares that were already configured previously and are > now slightly changed on the "server&quot...