[valtam]

Nice work Dave, will prove valuable information to others.

[Wirezfree]

Hi Valtam,

I think it was some form of timing issue, network was "not actually ready" when mount was being initiated, not sure?
I also found another anomaly along the way with my Laptop/WiFi hardware, will post something in Hardware on that.

Dave

[valtam]

Cheers Dave :)

[Wirezfree]

Hi Just an update....

Having now gone completely LL2 on all 3 PC's, I encountered the similar "read only access" issues..
But this time it was connecting to shares From Linux Lite To Linux Lite.
Again Browsing via FM(Thunar) shows the folders/files but they are R/O
((I do have the same username/password on all 3 PC's))

The solution in my previous posts also works for this scenario, I have 2 standard shares on each LL2 machine.

Just a note re: the use of ip addresses is not ideal....
but for whatever reason I'm unable to use "share names", it gives an error "unable to resolve"..??
Some Googling led me to adding

Code:

name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins

in to the samba.conf file, this did not help, maybe it's for mixed Linux/Windows set-up's..??
I will keep looking....

Also,
being that this in the rc.local I need to look at how to do this without errors if one of the other PC's is Off
Unless any ones got a better solution/fix.??

Dave

[AL13N]

Nice work Dave, will prove valuable information to others.

+1

Thank you for the information (and persistence).

[Wirezfree]

[quote author=Valtam link=topic=589.msg3908#msg3908 date=1407553639]
Nice work Dave, will prove valuable information to others.

+1

Thank you for the information (and persistence).
[/quote]

No problem... It's all about sharing & learning.

[Wirezfree]

Hopefully a final update,,

After some more research(Google)
I can now connect to Shares by Machine Name, rather than I.P addresses.

Here's the summary:
First:

Code:

sudo apt-get install libnss-winbind winbind

Then:

Code:

gksu leafpad /etc/nsswitch.conf

Then change the line:

Code:

hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns

To this, added "wins", apparently must be before dns:

Code:

hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] wins dns

Then re-boot

I have also left my edited "smb.conf" with the addition of

Code:

name resolve order = host wins bcast lmhosts

In the "global" section, just in case both are required.

Dave