[NBLUG/talk] Samba problems

[Troy Arnold]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:48:15AM -0800, Peter Lutz wrote:
> Hello.
> I wonder if anyone has seen this problem with samba.
> I have an Ubuntu Hardy server that I'm trying to access with Vista Home
> Premium.  Each time I try to do anything with Windows Explorer, I seem
> to get another instance of smbd started, but the connections never work.
> It seems to work like the code keys we used in Viet Nam.  Always one
> off.  At this point I have a stack that looks like this:

Your best bet is to tail -f the samba logs as you make a connection attempt.
There are most likely a bunch of files in /var/log/samba, named by IP
address or hostname.

Do you have a firewall or any security junk like Norton running ?

-t