FC16 Samba Browsing

[steven.ercolani]

I'm trying to browse a samba share using nautilus using the URL smb://server/share. It asks for my credentials, which I enter, but it just keeps asking for them over and over. I'm not able to browse the share. This works for me in version 15, but my version 16 instance doesn't work.

I disabled the firewall and SELinux to see if that would work - but no luck. I made sure the SMB libraries are installed and they seem to be.

Is there something that I'm missing?

[nevarc]

I suffered from the very same problem, but I just found a solution. Hope it works for you, too:

go to the command line and run

smbclient -L server

when asked for a password, just hit enter, as the guest account should be sufficient for listing the shares and some info about the server. Look for the Domain=[domainname] output.

If you know the domain of your samba server you can of course skip the smbclient call.

Now try to log in but replace the MYGROUP in the domain field of the pop up with the correct domain of your server. Using the proper domain worked for me and I could access the shares again.

I think it is quite a regression that Fedora 15 could figure out the correct domain to use and you have to provide it manually in Fedora 16...

But I guess it is not a gnome problem, but somehow related to changes in samba.
In Fedora 15 I could browse shares using

smbclient -U username //server/share

now I have to use

smbclient -U domainname/username //server/share

otherwise the call will fail with

NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

[steven.ercolani]

Thanks very much for the info. I tried out the suggestion you made and it worked! Then I tried browsing using the UI's Nautilus application. That didn't work - at least not at first. I eventually got this to work as well by entering the domain all in upper case. For some reason, if I specify the domain in lower case, it doesn't work and keeps asking for the credentials over and over again. Doing the same thing in Fedora 15 (using all lower case characters for the domain) worked, but in version 16, it doesn't. Hopefully this will help someone else that's having this issue.

[jacovh]

Thanks Steven & Nevark
Had exactly the same issue and was solved by your post