For some reason my computers won’t talk to each other any more, starting I think when I forced Xubuntu to upgrade to 24.04 (because I needed a more recent version of something for compiling RIS). I’m still on 24.04 on my desktop, which is on ethernet. When I try to access a share on my son’s machine which I recently upgraded to Windows 11, it says connection refused.
My son’s computer can’t access my shares either, says it can’t find (my computer name). My laptop is running Xubuntu 24.10 and when I try to access either smb://peyre or smb://Gaming (son’s computer) it asks what I want to open it with, and offers “samba-tool” I select that and it goes away, but never opens anything.
If you’re about to suggest I reinstall Xubuntu on my laptop from scratch, I’m half tempted to. It also hides all my Desktop items for some reason.
If I try to access my son’s computer by IP address, I get
From his computer, trying by IP address, it says Windows can’t find it.
lspci returns this for my ethernet card, if it matters:
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)
and of course I have network capability 'cause I have no trouble with Internet access on any of these machines.
The shares are defined in etc/samba.smb.conf:
[HomeFolder]
comment = Home folder share
path = /home/joe
read only = no
browsable = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = yes
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
valid users = joe
min protocol = SMB3[Storage]
comment = Storage share
path = /media/Storage
read only = no
browsable = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = yes
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
valid users = joe
min protocol = SMB3
(Name changed for anonymity)
My wife’s Win11 laptop can access my son’s Win11 desktop just fine.
I’m puzzled by this! I’ve used Xubuntu for over a decade, and I’ve never had so much trouble with networking before. 