It may be you already did give permissions in the other parts of your
network but if not , in the MS side right click, say the hard drive,
documents or files and choose Share. Set to share these.

I just go from Places/Network and I can see all my XP and Vista files
through the network without Samba.

Thanks I used to have that but it's stopped working hence my posting here

Basically the network simply refuses to talk to any Ubuntu machine I
am unable to navigate to the workgroup as I get the error messages I
mentioned in my previous posting

Are you sharing your Linux files from a Windows workstation or Windows files
from your Linux box? It makes a difference.

Both................................

OK I'm comming to the conclusion that basically Samba is broken on
this machine I know it is on the other though it does see other machines.


So can anyone tell me how I get Samba back to it's out of the box
default settings? I'll try and sstart all over again as there's simply
too much guff in Samba that means diddly squat to me and I'm lost with
it so it would be better to start over

Any help out there guys ????

oh one reason I'm comming to this conclusion is I got this error
message a few times
sh: winbindd: not found

as I say it means diddly squat to me

use synaptic to completely remove the installed samba components then
reinstall.

Did that and I'm still stuck with the screwed up settings :o(

I think I need to get rid of the old Samba config files so that the
re-install then puts a default config set up into the machine. Of
course I'm unable to delete the config files in /etc/samba/ as they
are write protected :o(

So I'm still stuck with machines not wanting to speak to or see each other

I'm making some progress at last I had to uninstall
absoloutely everything remotely related to samba Rboot and then
reinstall Samba and at last I can see my Windows machines again. Only
I can't see the Linux machine from the Windows machines and I've lost
some programs along the way too which I'll have to reinstall as and
when I remember what they were one out of interest was Rhthmbox


So any suggestions as to how I see my Linux machine from my Windows
machines would be greatefully recieved as this is where it all went
horribly wrong last time

go to samba under administration and create the shares you want. that
should do it

there is no Samba under administration. Not sure I ever had it
there to be honest.

I have set up shares by right clicking folders and sharing folder I
select Windows (SMB) I can confirm the folders are set to shared as
they are listed when I go to >System >Administration >Shared Folders
and they are listed there too So I don't believe I'm doing anything wrong.


Any ideas as to why the PC is invisible Windows side ? It used to
display before though I was never able to get into it

Now this is crazy somehow it's under MSHome which is the last place on
earth I' would have set the PC to be so now I have to find how to
change it's workgroup to my workgroup and not Microsofts !

sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

the workgroup is right near the top

or you can add the gui system-config-samba from synaptic

Unfortunately though there's nowhere in the config file that mentions
MSHOME in anyway shape or form so I've no idea as to why this PC
appears in the MSHOME workgroup and not the Workgroup which is set in
the config file.

Where do I find the GUI to run it once I've installed it?

I've found Samba in the >Sytem > Administration menu Is that what you
are referring to ? and yes in there it says CASTERBRIDGE which is the
Workgroup that I set it to.

I'd very much appreciate any help sorting this out as it makes no
sense to me at all.

no problems. beats working on my papers. Nice thing about the Ubuntu
community is how experience gets shared.

Trouble is though it's still convinced it's in MSHOME and it's not
fixed it despite the Samba interface saying it's not in MSHOME and
likewise the config file :o(

Any ideas where this MSHOME is coming from and how to fix it?

At this point I am out of ideas other than threatening it with a big
rock.

MSHOME is a nod to the many users coming from windows that have never
changed a default setting.

maybe the folks at http://ubuntuforums.org/ networking and wireless
forum can do better than I.