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Hi, I'm currently fiddling with Samba, trying to make it work on CentOS 7. Before that, I ran Samba successfully in a mixed environment with Slackware64 14.1 on the server and Slackware/Windows Seven on the client side. I have three sandbox machines running CentOS 7. One has a minimal install with only the samba and samba-client packages. Just to be on the safe side for fiddling,

...owever when I enter smb://<server_IP_address>/ I was able to see the shares. If Im not mistaken the 'nmb' service is responsible for browsing, therefore I stopped it and I was not longer able to see the shares from a windows or samba client. What is the output of: $ smbclient -L <samba_server_host-or-IP> -U <samba_user> from one of the samba clients?

...ver_IP_address>/ I was able to see the shares. > > If Im not mistaken the 'nmb' service is responsible for browsing, > therefore I stopped it and I was not longer able to see the shares from > a windows or samba client. > > What is the output of: > $ smbclient -L <samba_server_host-or-IP> -U <samba_user> > from one of the samba clients? OK, I experimented some more, and here's what I got. I replaced the system on the two sandbox client machines by a standard "vanilla" CentOS+GNOME desktop. At first I couldn't browse any samba shares, but then...