I have a problem with my upgrade to 8.04.
I have an HP Pavilion Slimline with an AMD X2 processor and installed Ubuntu 7.1 when it first came out. It worked fine and, among other things, recognized my home Windows Network right away - even when I simply booted off the installation disk. This enabled me to run my linux box very nicely with my spouse and kids machines. (I know I should convert them but they are Windows heathens to their very core). In any case, I shared files via their windows shares (no passwords, free and open for read and write) and used their printers so I did not have to bother with a printer on my machine.
Then while messing with Applications/Add Remove I saw the opportunity to upgrade to 8.04 which I immediately took advantage of. The installation went very smoothly (as I expected). However, after the installation the connection to the Windows Network stopped working. When I clicked on Places/Network and double-clicked on Windows Network it showed MSHOME - but my workgroup is called WORKGROUP on the windows network so when I double-clicked on MSHOME I got nothing after a long wait. (No surprise there.) I figured I just needed to change the global workgroup in smb.conf and all would be well. I did that and after rebooting it seemed to work. That is, when I now click on Places/Network it shows Windows Network and an icon for every machine on my Windows network. However, when I double click on the machine icons nothing shows. Even wierder, when I use the System/Administration/Printing and browse for printers it finds the shared printers but when I set them up they do not work.
I decided to go to the /var/log/samba directory and see what was up. Sure enough, there was a log file for each of the windows machines. Here is a sample for the machine called carolputer:
[2008/06/12 09:10:06, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(562)
write_data: write failure in writing to client
192.168.1.102. Error Connection reset by peer
[2008/06/12 09:10:06, 0] lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(769)
Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. (Connection reset by peer)
... repeated many times.
Similar messages for each other machine I tried to connect to.
OK, I thought, maybe something went wrong on install. So I downloaded the 8.04 install and put it on a DVD and booted to the DVD on this machine. Same problem. In run from DVD mode it did not recognize my Windows shares and showed MSHOME again. OK, I thought, maybe it is this machine. So I booted from the DVD on another HP - my wife's - and it still did not recognize my Windows shares. It did show WORKGROUP this time but it did not find the various Windows machines or the shares. OK, I thought, maybe if I installed on that machine the problem would get corrected. NOPE. Same problem.
Can anyone help me or direct me to a solution. Is there anything else you would like to see or know to help me?
Lynn Ziegler
