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Can only connect to samba share from win 7 machine using IP address and not hostname

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http://askubuntu.com – I am a beginner when it comes to Linux, and have recently put together a media server, holding all my movies, running ubuntu 12.04. After following tutorials and forums i can successfully ping, by hostname and ip, my windows desktop box and my media server ubuntu box fine, and vice versa. I have configured samba to set up a share called Movies on my media server. I have set up an account on samba using my linux username, windows username with my linux password. My ubuntu box is now visible on my network tree on my win7 box, as is the Movies share. however when i try to access the Movies sha (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 01/15/2013

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Hi,

I am a beginner when it comes to Linux, and have recently put together a media server, holding all my movies, running ubuntu 12.04.

After following tutorials and forums i can successfully ping, by hostname and ip, my windows desktop box and my media server ubuntu box fine, and vice versa.

I have configured samba to set up a share called Movies on my media server.

Hi guys

I had CP,SB and SAB setup and all working perfectly on a win7 machine. I have an unraid server setup that stores everything under a share that looks like this

Media -------------- I I I Movies TV Music

The share "Media" was then mapped as the E drive

But due to constant lags in XBMC and random reboots I decided to give Ubuntu a go as half my SSD was tak

Salvete! I have a machine running CentOS 6.2.

I have a few conditions to meet with a new samba setup.I want to migrate a windows based share to a linux samba share. However this time the share is in the regular corporate LAN and I do not have the rights to add this samba server to the corporate windows domain.

So I've been running an ubuntu server for about 6 months now (noob) and I set up a samba share which I used with windows 7 PC's. Once it was set up everything worked fine.

Now I have 2 windows 8 PC's and neither of them have my ubuntu server samba share showing up with network discovery. If I use the IP or hostname (\\ubunutu) the shares show up and work properly.

Hello,

I've been using Ubuntu Netbook Edition for a couple of years now. I upgraded my main PC from Vista to Windows 8. I want to reach a Windows share which went well in Vista. Now it keeps prompting my for a username/password.

I have a server running Windows Server 2008 R2 on a remote DC and another server running CentOS 6.2 (in another remote DC) which has a Samba configured too.

From my local machine I can access the samba share with the right permissions without problems.

I have a Linux samba server and have explicitly listed users that can access the folder.

I have successfully congfigured Samba to require a username and password when accessing the share from windows (using the smbpasswd, etc.).

But now I want to force clear the auth cache on the windows machine.

I've been trying for days to get this working, and everywhere I look online it seems no one has a definitive answer, so here is the run down:

I have an external drive attached to my ubuntu 12.04 machine, "nicholas-desktop." I have the entire drive shared over the network via SAMBA.