Problems with xffm/xfsamba and right-click menu in Xfce 4.2.0 (on Slackware 10.1)

[Edscott Wilson Garcia]

El mié, 17-08-2005 a las 15:04 +0100, Nick Chorley escribió:
> All I get from that is "Connection to HOME failed".

Yes, then the problem has nothing to do with xfsamba. The problem is
with your master browser //650MHZ. 

MS decided that smb network browsing was going to work like a web page.
The only machine that actually does any browsing is the master server.
All other machines just ask the master browser what it found in the
network. That's what xfsamba does too. From the output you can see that
the master browser does not have any workstation in it's "web page" (the
output of smbclient -L).

Usually this problem is due to the machine just becoming a master
browser recently (the acting master browser was turned off or there was
no master browser and //650MHZ was just turned on). You have to let a
certain amount of time pass.

Also, if you want to see linux/solaris/bsd boxes in the smb network, you
*must* have the samba service on that particular box up and running. If
you do not have samba service running on the box with xfsamba, then you
can browse other boxes on the smb network but they cannot see you (the
penguin is underwater).
 
BTW. The bug that was fixed in 4.3.3.1 was that xfsamba could
query //HOME instead of //650MHZ, which you verified does not produce
anything useful. In your case this is not happening.


-- 
Edscott Wilson Garcia <edscott at xfce.org>