03-25-2018, 09:25 PM
I see now that I have some fundamental network configuration problem on the Windows machines. They all seem to exchange files with each other ok, but I see now that they aren't all acting the same. Two of them (brand new Windows 10 installs) aren't discovering the Linux machine on their own. One of them (an older Windows 10 machine) actually discovers the Linux Machine on the Network and lists it as a server at the command prompt. But strangely that computer won't actually open the Linux shares. It reports a potential "spelling error" on the share names. There is no spelling error on the share names. So something strange is going on.
I'll need to go over all my Windows networking configurations. Something's not right and it most likely doesn't have anything at all to do with Linux or Samba.
So I'll need to figure this out from scratch. One of these Windows is brand new. Another one I just did a complete fresh re-install on it from scratch with a brand new empty hard drive. The third one is an older version that used to be Windows 8 and has been upgraded to Windows 10. I'm planning on doing a complete re-install on that one too eventually.
In the meantime I'll need to go over all the network settings on the Windows machines. That's where the problem is.
Although I should note too that the Linux machine isn't recognizing other Linux machines either.
I have Linux Lite on a Notebook computer and (5) Raspberry Pi cards running Raspian. From Windows I can read and write to all of them once I point to where they are. But the Linux Lite isn't finding the Raspberry Pi cards either. And they have Samba on them too.
This is going to be a networking nightmare to figure out, but once I get it all up and running I should be a network expert. 8)
I'll need to go over all my Windows networking configurations. Something's not right and it most likely doesn't have anything at all to do with Linux or Samba.
So I'll need to figure this out from scratch. One of these Windows is brand new. Another one I just did a complete fresh re-install on it from scratch with a brand new empty hard drive. The third one is an older version that used to be Windows 8 and has been upgraded to Windows 10. I'm planning on doing a complete re-install on that one too eventually.
In the meantime I'll need to go over all the network settings on the Windows machines. That's where the problem is.
Although I should note too that the Linux machine isn't recognizing other Linux machines either.
I have Linux Lite on a Notebook computer and (5) Raspberry Pi cards running Raspian. From Windows I can read and write to all of them once I point to where they are. But the Linux Lite isn't finding the Raspberry Pi cards either. And they have Samba on them too.
This is going to be a networking nightmare to figure out, but once I get it all up and running I should be a network expert. 8)