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[William Batie <question165039@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #165039 on samba in Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+question/165039

    Status: Answered => Open

William Batie is still having a problem:
As Stated earlier all computers are in workgroup=WORKGROUP. UBUNTU sees
Windows Network-WORKGROUP, i.e.; Home Folder, click Network, click Windows
Network, click WORKGROUP, but the error "Unable to mount location - Failed
to retrieve share list from server. However if I go to Home
Folder=>File=>Connect to Sever, and choose "Window share" and under Server:
enter the IP address of the Vista Ulimate 64 computer the I connect with the
computer and see all of the shared files. On the Vista computer I click
"Network" and I see all computers on the network, "WORKGROUP"; i.e., Ubuntu,
Mac, XP pro, ect. which all belong to "WORKGROUP". If Ubuntu is not capable
of doing what Windows Vista does, simply tell me and I will get rid of
Ubuntu which is a stand alone.
Thank you, since you are the only one who has responded, thus sensing that
the rest of the community does not no the answer.
Thanks again,
Bill Batie 

-----Original Message-----
From: bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Eliah Kagan
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 2:46 PM
To: woodworkering@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Question #165039]: Cannot Wire Network

Your question #165039 on samba in Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+question/165039

    Status: Open => Answered

Eliah Kagan proposed the following answer:
It's unclear from your post (#2 as numbered at
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+question/165039)
whether or not your Ubuntu system sees the Windows machines individually
and by name when you view the workgroup. If the problem is that it does
not, then perhaps the Windows machines are simply in a differently named
workgroup than the Ubuntu machine. For quick instructions to change the
workgroup that an Ubuntu system considers itself part of, see answer #1
(currently the only answer) at http://askubuntu.com/questions/23568
/where-does-the-samba-workgroup-come-from-when-samba-is-not-
running#23587.

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