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[Question #208828]: Cannot share hard drives between ubutu machines

 

New question #208828 on samba in Ubuntu:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+question/208828

have built server use an old 12.04 machine set up samba to share 3  1tb hard drives for storage .have two windows 7 pc which works perfect with the server reads the swaps files read the harddrives etc acces the server via the ip address on the windows 7 ps .got two 12.04 ubuntu machines which can shares files between them selves and the window pcs .on the server can see the other ubnutu pc shares via the browser network but cannot access them/open then up from the server .the two ubuntu pcs cannot see the hard drives in the server 
Basical all the pcs can share between them seleves windows to ubuntu etc ..the ubuntu pcs cannot access the server but the windows 7 can ,need all pcs to access the servers storage harddrives

also need it to be password free

have included info from the terminal



eddie@eddie-A7N8X-E:~$ testparm -s 

Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf 
rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384) 
Processing section "[printers]" 
Processing section "[print$]" 
Processing section "[New Volume1]" 
Processing section "[New Volume3]" 
Processing section "[New Volume2]" 
Loaded services file OK. 
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE 
[global] 
	server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu) 
	map to guest = Bad User 
	obey pam restrictions = Yes 
	pam password change = Yes 
	passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u 
	passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . 
	unix password sync = Yes 
	syslog = 0 
	log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m 
	max log size = 1000 
	dns proxy = No 
	usershare allow guests = Yes 
	panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d 

[printers] 
	comment = All Printers 
	path = /var/spool/samba 
	create mask = 0700 
	printable = Yes 
	browseable = No 

[print$] 
	comment = Printer Drivers 
	path = /var/lib/samba/printers 

[New Volume1] 
	path = /media/New Volume1 
	read only = No 
	guest ok = Yes 

[New Volume3] 
	path = /media/New Volume3 
	read only = No 
	guest ok = Yes 

[New Volume2] 
	path = /media/New Volume2 
	read only = No 
	guest ok = Yes 
eddie@eddie-A7N8X-E:~$ 

eddie@eddie-A7N8X-E:~$ net usershare info --long

info_fn: file /var/lib/samba/usershares/new volume2 is not a well formed usershare file.
info_fn: Error was Path is not a directory.
info_fn: file /var/lib/samba/usershares/new volume3 is not a well formed usershare file.
info_fn: Error was Path is not a directory.
info_fn: file /var/lib/samba/usershares/new volume1 is not a well formed usershare file.
info_fn: Error was Path is not a directory.
eddie@eddie-A7N8X-E:~$ 

eddie@eddie-A7N8X-E:~$ hostname 
eddie-A7N8X-E 
eddie@eddie-A7N8X-E:~$ 

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