Asad Javid wrote:
samba gui is not working for me. whenever i try to open up the gui it gives me error saying "couldn't display smb://, because nautilus cannot contact the SMB master browser.Check that an SMB server is running on the local network."
but i can open up network places by manually typing smb://ipaddress of hostname and it does work.
any idea what might be the problem??
start your samba on boot # chkconfig smb on
# service smb status smbd (pid 4277) wird ausgeführt... nmbd (pid 4281) wird ausgeführt...
afair you have to wait about 7 minutes before your samba-server becomes master-browser
check your log
# tail -f /var/log/samba/nmbd.log [2003/11/16 10:50:21, 0] nmbd/nmbd_workgroupdb.c:dump_workgroups(266) dump_workgroups() dump workgroup on subnet 192.168.101.12: netmask= 255.255.255.0: MYGROUP(1) current master browser = XP1800 XP1800 40049803 (Samba Server)