Network share not working

[paul1149]

Nailed  it. I found the smbusers.conf file to contain something like this:

<linux>="<linux>"<joyce>="<joyce>"

I've run into this before, but had forgotten about it. It seems to be a flaw of the Samba Configurator. It apparently doesn't see the original "linux" entry and therefore doesn't start a new line. So I changed it to

<linux>="<linux>"
<joyce>="<joyce>"

Then with a restart of the smbd and nmbd services, I was able to log in.
Then I navigated to the other test share, and during the login process was greeted by the keyring prompt, which I've never been so happy to see. On reboot the logins were proved persistent.

Then I tried accessing the shares from other LL and Win8 units, and all went well.

I am getting quite a bit of sluggishness in accessing the LAN and shares, and have been using F5 a lot to refresh the view. Also, samba doesn't seem to auto-poll the remote shares at all. The Refresh is necessary to see changes. But this is another issue.

Thanks for the input!