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Hi there,

Today my server box stopped responding to all input. In the end I had to do a hard restart.
Now, when I turn it on, it gets as far as logging in, logs into my user, works briefly, then...

Sorry :( I don't mean to be confusing things. I think the reason I'm getting frustrated is because I had this problem before, instantly after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04, without making any other...

All this is irrelevant, the directory access/location and all that jazz works fine. I just have to access it with \\192.168.1.100 rather than \\hostname.


Ha right ok...I figured from the samba...

Also, I have played around with wireshark...

The server CAN see the broadcast request for server, but it won't respond. However when I access it via the IP, it connects fine. And you can see it...

I have never even heard of a browse master :oops: So I shall have to look into that...

As far as diagnosis goes, I have done everything in this thread...I have removed and purged samba,...

Yup! http://imgur.com/8Qrnz.png

On my laptop I get this...


16699 29.366414 192.168.1.103 192.168.1.255 NBNS Name query NB SERVER<20>

User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: netbios-ns (137), Dst Port: netbios-ns...

Yeah sharing is enabled on all the windows hosts. And yeah they all use the windows firewall. But as I said before, even with this disabled it doesn't work. All the windows machines can see each...

"JAMES FAMILY" c0001000 "SERVER" "JAMES FAMILY"
"SERVER" 40859a03 "Backup Server" "JAMES FAMILY"

My /etc/hosts file said,


127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 server.home server

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback...

192.168.1.100 server Ubuntu 10.04
192.168.1.101 office-pc Windows XP
192.168.1.102 ps3 PS3OS?
192.168.1.103 nicks-laptop Windows 7...

Interesting ports on 192.168.1.103:
Not shown: 1970 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
135/tcp open msrpc
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
445/tcp open ...

It always used to work fine with this firewall, so I presumed it would be ok. Anyway, after disabling it I still can't access via hostname. So as it stands now (for these tests) there is no firewall...

I do, my Windows 7 laptop...

When I ran "nmap -sS -sU -T4 192.168.1.103" I got,


Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-08-15 00:36 BST
Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but...

Interesting ports on 192.168.1.100:
Not shown: 1987 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
25/tcp open smtp
53/tcp open domain
139/tcp ...

Ok I've reverted it, turns out it made no difference anyway...

So what exactly do I need to do with wireshark?

Ps. Thanks for trying!

I scanned only using nmap, I don't have a GUI on the server so I couldn't install wireshark...unless it has a CLI?

Also, now I can access the server using hostname.local AND the IP, but not just...

I have also tried this which seemed hopeful! But with no luck :(

As far as I can tell yeah...Although I haven't setup any firewall :confused:

A scan from my laptop shows this...



Interesting ports on 192.168.1.100:
Not shown: 993 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
25/tcp open smtp
139/tcp open ...

So how can I fix it? :)

Also, I have discovered that I cannot access the server via its hostname under any protocol...so I can't SSH using hostname, only the IP, same with http, or MySQL :(

Hi again,

I just thought I would update everyone...

Basically I gave up on this, and totally reinstalled Ubuntu 10.04, whacked in my smb.conf and it worked straight away! As far as I could...

Hi there,

Basically I have two printers shared on my Ubuntu server...one is a PDF printer which requires you to be logged in, as it will email you the PDF, fine, the second is a laser printer....

What did you include in your smb.conf about the wins server? This is the last little step now...such an annoying thing too!