Own PC not showing in Network

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I have just upgraded to Lubuntu 26.04 LTS. Most things are OK, but the Network tab is not showing the PC. It does show another PC on the network.

I have installed Samba and cifs-utils etc. but Samba appears not to be running:

‘‘‘systemctl status smbd
Unit smbd.service could not be found.’’’

Rebooting does not help.

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From which prior Ubuntu version did you do the release upgrade? I’m asking because there is no official support for upgrades from 24.04 LTS yet and you may have hit some rough edges.

‘‘‘systemctl status smbd
Unit smbd.service could not be found.’’’

Maybe Samba fell by the wayside:

apt policy samba

That should tell you if it is even installed.

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If you are so inclined, I took it upon myself to provide a little helper script for that. :sweat_droplets:

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You should also consider uploading a report with the logs of the release upgrader, so others won’t have the same issue.

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I have re-installed Samba, I don’t know why it didn’t work before. It is now running:

apt policy samba
samba:
  Installed: 2:4.23.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2:4.23.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 2:4.23.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Network now shows it’s own PC.

I am now back to the original problem which I had with sharing on my old EOL 25.04 version.

I created a bug report log before getting Samba going, but I will not now submit it.

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Why not? This was apparently caused by the release upgrader, which seemingly removed the samba package. That’s a bug that should be fixed, so others don’t run into the same issue.

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Are you trying to share files to Windows? Is this the requirement here?

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OK, I have now submitted the report.

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I share files with a Windows PC and with a Linux (Peppermint) one.

Essentially the Lubuntu PC can see the other two and I can push and pull files to and from them.

But the other two cannot access the Lubuntu folders, and the Lubuntu cannot even access the folders shown on its own Network tab, set up in smb.conf. The error reported when entering username and password is “invalid argument”.

This problem was there on the previous installation, 25.04. I have understood a bit more about permissions now, and need to look at the shared folder settings again.

It’s irritating rather than critical.

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Could use an NFS server and install the NFS client in Windows.

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Thanks, I will look into that.

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After much mucking about with permissions etc. I have fixed the sharing problem thanks to a very simple post found on U-tube. The essential line is

sudo smbpasswd -a username

to create a password for Samba.

This step isn’t required on a different Linux installation, maybe it’s less secure.

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