I have a problem with my upgrade to 8.04.

I have an HP Pavilion
Slimline with an AMD X2 processor and installed Ubuntu 7.1 when it
first came out. It worked fine and, among other things, recognized my
home Windows Network right away - even when I simply booted off the
installation disk. This enabled me to run my linux box very nicely with
my spouse and kids machines. (I know I should convert them but they are
Windows heathens to their very core). In any case, I shared files via
their windows shares (no passwords, free and open for read and write)
and used their printers so I did not have to bother with a printer on
my machine.


Then while messing with Applications/Add Remove I saw the
opportunity to upgrade to 8.04 which I immediately took advantage of.
The installation went very smoothly (as I expected). However, after the
installation the connection to the Windows Network stopped working.
When I clicked on Places/Network and double-clicked on Windows Network
it showed MSHOME - but my workgroup is called WORKGROUP on the windows
network so when I double-clicked on MSHOME I got nothing after a long
wait. (No surprise there.) I figured I just needed to change the global
workgroup in smb.conf and all would be well. I did that and after
rebooting it seemed to work. That is, when I then clicked on
Places/Network it shows Windows Network and an icon for every machine
on my Windows network. However, when I double click on the machine
icons nothing shows. Even wierder, when I use the
System/Administration/Printing and browse for printers it finds the
shared printers but when I set them up they do not work.


I decided to go to the /var/log/samba directory and see what was
up. Sure enough, there was a log file for each of the windows machines.
Here is a sample for the machine called carolputer:
[2008/06/12 09:10:06, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(562)

* write_data: write failure in writing to client 192.168.1.102. Error Connection reset by peer
[2008/06/12 09:10:06, 0] lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(769)
* Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. (Connection reset by peer)



... repeated many times.

Similar messages for each other machine I tried to connect to.

OK,
I thought, maybe something went wrong on install. So I downloaded the
8.04 install and put it on a DVD and booted to the DVD on this machine.
Same problem. In run from DVD mode it did not recognize my Windows
shares and showed MSHOME again. OK, I thought, maybe it is this
machine. So I booted from the DVD on another HP and it
still did not recognize my Windows shares. It did show WORKGROUP this
time but it did not find the various Windows machines or the shares.
OK, I thought, maybe if I installed on that machine the problem would
get corrected. NOPE. Same problem.


Can anyone help me or direct me to* a solution. Is there anything else you would like to see or know to help me?

Lynn Ziegler


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On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Lynn Ziegler <yadaoser@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a problem with my upgrade to 8.04.

Hate to see a well written and researched request like this go
unanswered so I'm answering - but I don't have a lot of input for you.
:-(

Only thing that occurred to me was I've had some odd issues when I
have multiple machines on the same network with the same hostname.
I'm guessing you have a standard home router - but if it doesn't
assign names as well as numbers via DHCP then I think you can end up
with multiple machines named 'ubuntu' - which then causes issues when
doing windows networking. Also, since changes in Windows networking
can take a bit of time to propagate, if you change hostname or ip then
sometimes it takes things a little bit to calm down (think 10 minutes
say at a guess)

Other thing you might try for interest sake is the live 7.10 cd - if
it works still maybe then we can confirm it's an artifact of the new
software in 8.04

Brian

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