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I tried to share the directory /home/me/music with Samba. The output of testparm on my server is as follows (I think this is Ubuntu's default configuration, except for the [share] section):

[global]

server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)

map to guest = Bad User

obey pam restrictions = Yes

pam password change = Yes

passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u

passwd chat = *Entersnews*spassword:* %nn *Retypesnews*spassword:* %nn *passwordsupdatedssuccessfully* .

unix password sync = Yes

syslog = 0

log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

max log size = 1000

dns proxy = No

usershare allow guests = Yes

panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d



[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = /var/spool/samba

create mask = 0700

printable = Yes

browseable = No



[print$]

comment = Printer Drivers

path = /var/lib/samba/printers



[share]

comment = My music files

path = /home/me/music

create mask = 0755

I used smbpasswd to give a passwort to the user friend.

When I try to connect to the share from another Ubuntu machine with smbclient, everything seems fine:

smbclient -U friend //192.168.1.2/share

I can call dir, and I see the content of the directory.

However, when I want to connect the network drive from a Windows 7 machine (\192.168.1.2share with user WORKGROUPfriend), I get the error that the network address is not reachable (I cannot tell the exact error message, because I have a German Windows version). The error is misleading, because I can ping 192.168.1.2 from the Windows machine.

I guess I am not the first person to run into this, but Googling for "samba" and "network unreachable" doesn't help. I hope somebody can tell me what's wrong with my config, and what's the difference between running smbclient and connecting from Windows.

Netscan (for windows) is a very handy tool for browsing lan. There is a similar application for linux too, named ---ShareScanner (netscan for linux). You can download it from:

http://sharescanner.net84.net

The site contains 32 and 64 bit debian and rpm packages for easy installation. It is actually a gui for smbclient

Windows 7 uses SMB2 protocol. If you are running Samba 3.5 or earlier, it supports SMB1 and may not be completely compatible. SMB2 support was added to Samba in version 3.6 . NOTE: The newest verson of MacOS "Mavericks" will support SMB2 also starting in Fall 2013.