Hi,

I’m currently experimenting with Samba on a few sandbox machines.

On the server side, I have setup CentOS 7 with a basic Samba setup and two shares, one public, the other password-protected.

I have two Windows 7 boxes in my network, and I can access the shares perfectly, log in to the password-protected share, read and write files, so this seems to work OK.

On my main Linux workstation (CentOS 7 + custom GNOME) I can’t seem to access these shares. When I click on the “Parcourir le réseau” (“Browse network”) icon in GNOME, Nautilus opens and shows a “Réseau Windows”
(“Windows network”) icon. Clicking on this icon, I only get the following error message: “Impossible d’accéder à l’emplacement”. Unable to access this place.

So I fire up GNOME Terminal and see what this looks like on the command line :

[kikinovak@alphamule:~] $ smbclient -L //amandine -N
Anonymous login successful

Sharename Type Comment
——— —- ——-
Public Disk Partage Public Confidentiel Disk Partage Confidentiel IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Serveur de fichiers AMANDINE)
Reconnecting with SMB1 for workgroup listing. Anonymous login successful

Server Comment
——— ——-

Workgroup Master
——— ——-
WORKGROUP AMANDINE

So far, so good. Now I try to connect as a user:

[kikinovak@alphamule:~] $ smbclient //amandine/Confidentiel -U kikinovak Enter SAMBA\kikinovak’s password:
Try “help” to get a list of possible commands. smb: \> dir
. D 0 Fri Oct 19 09:45:37 2018
.. D 0 Fri Oct 19 08:47:34 2018
Lighthouse.jpg N 561276 Tue Jul 14 07:32:31 2009
Jellyfish.jpg N 775702 Tue Jul 14 07:32:31 2009
Desert.jpg N 845941 Tue Jul 14 07:32:31 2009
Koala.jpg N 780831 Tue Jul 14 07:32:31 2009
Hydrangeas.jpg N 595284 Tue Jul 14 07:32:31 2009
Tulips.jpg N 620888 Tue Jul 14 07:32:31 2009
Penguins.jpg N 777835 Tue Jul 14 07:32:31 2009
Chrysanthemum.jpg N 879394 Tue Jul 14 07:32:31 2009
149030696 blocks of size 1024. 139929224 blocks available smb: \>

This also looks good. Now let’s check what Samba-related packages are installed on my workstation:

[kikinovak@alphamule:~] $ rpm -qa | grep samba samba-client-libs-4.7.1-6.el7.x86_64
samba-client-4.7.1-6.el7.x86_64
samba-common-4.7.1-6.el7.noarch samba-common-libs-4.7.1-6.el7.x86_64
[kikinovak@alphamule:~] $ rpm -qa | grep gvfs gvfs-mtp-1.30.4-5.el7.x86_64
gvfs-smb-1.30.4-5.el7.x86_64
gvfs-afp-1.30.4-5.el7.x86_64
gvfs-client-1.30.4-5.el7.x86_64
gvfs-1.30.4-5.el7.x86_64
gvfs-archive-1.30.4-5.el7.x86_64
gvfs-goa-1.30.4-5.el7.x86_64
gvfs-fuse-1.30.4-5.el7.x86_64
gvfs-gphoto2-1.30.4-5.el7.x86_64
gvfs-afc-1.30.4-5.el7.x86_64

Any idea what’s missing here or why this doesn’t work as expected ?

Cheers from the sunny South of France,

Niki

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