Failed to retrieve share list from server.

[ralphy]

[member=7348]Robo_Pi[/member]


Great job! Now you're becoming more aware about your network.


The IP 92.242.140.21 (unallocated.barefruit.co.uk) is not safe. The site has been known to distribute various adware. Chances are your PC is infected and being proxied out. So it is not using the local DNS for resolution. You need to clean that PC and remove the proxy settings. You've got owned!  :o


1- All computers on the network should use .home as the DNS resolver in your network. That's 192.168.1.1 in your case. By default that should be the DNS IP that should show up when running in a command prompt (Windows):

Code:

ipconfig /all | find "DNS Servers"

By default (as long as your PCs are not infected) they should be able to ping each other by using hostname.home (e.g.: ping Alysha.home)


Assuming that a PC is unable to find another PC by hostname (not being infected of course) you can manually force the suffix domain .home:





2- Some of your PCs are resolving on IPv6. You may want to consider disabling IPv6 on those computers and using IPv4 instead but this isn't a must.


After cleaning the infected machine and ensuring all machines can ping each other by hostname, let us know and we will get back to setting up Samba in Linux Lite. You're very close to get it all straighten and you have the skills for that and much more. Keep it up!