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to stream videos over my home network. Everything is running fine, except for access to the Windows workgroup on my network. I am accessing this through ubuntu failed to retrieve share list from server the GUI, and I can get to my shared files about 15% of failed to retrieve share list from server: connection refused the time. Every other attempt gives an error: Could not display "smb://renchy-pc/shared folder/". Error: Invalid argument Please select another viewer and try again. for a folder I have already mounted, or: Unable to mount location Failed to mount Windows share for a folder I'm trying to mount. The windows pc, running win7 x64, is sitting idle, with no screensaver or sleep settings turned on, and I have everything set up to share properly on the windows side ( I can access my files 100% of the time from other windows computers on the network). I really like the new found speed my computer has with this clean install of ubuntu, but if i can't fix this intermittent problem I'm going to have to go back to windows :-( Question information Language: English Edit question Status: Solved For: Ubuntu samba Edit question Assignee: No assignee Edit question Solved by: Jeruvy Solved: 2011-07-12 Last query: 2011-07-12 Last reply: 2011-07-12 Related bugs Link existing bug Related FAQ: None Link to a FAQ Jeruvy (jeruvy) said on 2011-07-12: #1 I wouldn't worry too much, samba works very well with Windows file sharing. Are you using any authentication or accessing the shares as guest? actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said on 2011-07-12: #2 Can you give the output of: smbtree; lsb_release -a Thanks Adam Rentsch (the-rentsch) said on 2011-07-12: #3 I'm accessing as an authorised user, every attempt at mount uses the remembered password. Adam Rentsch (the-rentsch) said on 2011-07-12: #4 renchy@renchy-Aspire-L3600:~$ smbtree; lsb_release -a Enter renchy's password: WORKGROUP \\TAETAE \\RENCHY-PC failed negprot: ERRnomem \\RENCHY-ASPIRE-L3 renchy-Aspire-L3600 server (Samba, Ubuntu) \\RENCHY-ASPIRE-L3\IPC$ IPC Service (renchy-Aspire-L3600 server (Samba, Ubuntu)) \\RENCHY-ASPIRE-L3\print$ Printer Drivers No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 11.04 Release: 11.04 Codename: natty Jeruvy (jeruvy) said on 2011-07-12: #5 Refer to this link to see if this provides you a solution: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1169149 actionparsn
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] hi all Some of my sonar users have reported that after the latest update to samba, their previously working https://lists.manjaro.org/pipermail/manjaro-dev/Week-of-Mon-20160613/001235.html samba configs stopped working. I've noticed this myself and I'm stumped as to what to try next. The errors you recieve are as follows. "error: unable to mount windows http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=39617 share. Invalid argument. Please select another viewer and try again." This is the one I get myself when trying to connect to my fiance's windows 7 machine and it's very failed to cryptic. I don't know what it means but I've tried other file managers (nautilus, pcmanfm) to no avail. "error: unable to mount windows share. Connection refused/connection timed out." I sometimes get this one if the windows computer has gone to sleep. "error: unable to mount windows share. Failed to retrieve share list from server. No such file or directory." failed to retrieve I don't usually get this one, but you can if samba isn't configured properly. I didn't get any errors about invalid samba configs when running samba to check it's config, and I don't remember seeing warnings about my config being replaced with the default configs. I don't know much about samba, but is it possible to specify that samba should autoconfigure itself, at least as far as work group name, and security settings are concerned? I don't use windows myself, but I'm told it autoconfigures itself so none of this configuring is needed, and I was hoping I could set samba to do the same. What should I try next to get samba going? I'd like to get samba working as automatically as I can in time for the 2016.6 release so that new users to sonar will be able to access windows computers over the network with as little configuring as possible. Should I check my samba configuration, downgrade samba? Thanks Kendell Clark Next message: [manjaro-dev] thus 0.9.5 still hangs in sonar install. Messages