Seeing PCs on network

[PaulClarke]

Hello,

I have a problem in that I cannot "see" the computers on my windows / F7 LAN.

I can mount a shared windows folder and the Windows PCs can see the F7 PC and access its files but whenever I go to the network folder in F7 I get the following error:

The folder contents could not be displayed.

Sorry, couldn't display all the contents of "Windows Network: mshome".

The following is my samba conf file

[global]
workgroup = mshome
netbios name = PAULLP
server string = Server
security = share
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
printcap name = /etc/printcap
dns proxy = No
cups options = raw
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
force unknown acl user = Yes
encrypt passwords = no
; guest ok = no
; guest account = nobody

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = Yes
browseable = No

[share]
path = /share
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
; browseable = yes

[paul]
path = /home/paul
writeable = yes
; browseable = yes
guest ok = yes

Thank you for assistance

Paul

[Crito]

Stop the firewall and see if the problem persists. If that resolves the issue then it's likely a bug they fixed in F8. By default F7 doesn't allow mDNS (port 5353 UDP) which is used to populate that folder.

EDIT: You can either open that port or, if you're using a private range and NAT like me, just allow inbound from the whole subnet. I'm accepting everything from 192.168.1.0/24 in my iptables rules. Think that's safer than opening up the port to everyone, especially on a laptop that might get used somewhere else with a public addy. And opening up the port for each specific IP quickly becomes a maintenance nightmare. But maybe one of the other netfilter/iptables hackers here has a better method...