samba gui not working

[Asad Javid]

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??

Regards,

Asad Javid

[rg]

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??

Same prob here.

rg

[William Hooper]

Asad Javid  said:
> samba gui is not working for me.

What does this have to do with testing?  Please take general questions to
the fedora-list.
> 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??

How about you don't have a SMB master browser?

Another common issue is that your workgroup name needs set correctly in
/etc/samba/smb.conf.

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)