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peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 913 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

Title edited: originally thought this was a Samba problem but further investigation has shown it is a more fundamental networking problem which may be hardware rather than software related....

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Original post:

For some time now I've been running Samba successfully on my desktop to share files with my laptop.

My current desktop setup is a frugal install of Slacko 5.4 with samba_full-3.6.1-s.sfs installed.

My desktop is upstairs and has been hard wired into my router with my laptop connecting by WPA wifi. The wifi router is a Thompson TG585 v8 supplied by my ISP (Plusnet in the UK).

I'd like to move the router to get a stronger signal downstairs so have bought a wifi adapter for the desktop which works just fine however when I install it I am no longer able to find any Samba shares from my laptop.

I am not running the Puppy firewall on the desktop, but there is a firewall in the router.

So I'm wondering if there are some settings I need to make in the router to allow the desktop to be a Samba server over wireless??

Any help gratefully received.
Thanks
peebee

p310don · Posted: Wed 23 Jan 2013, 07:10 Post subject:

It shouldn't make any difference what sort of LAN connection you have to share via Samba.

Are you certain you didn't enable the firewall on the wireless connection?

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 913 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 23 Jan 2013, 07:43 Post subject:

Which Samba client program are you using?

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

rcrsn51,

As for client software, while I can't speak for peebee I'm pretty sure he would have tried all the basic 3 available (Pnethood, YASSM, and the 'network' tool available in slacko-5.4).

peebee, all I can offer is that to make sure ports 137/138/139 are not blocked by the router .

HTH

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 913 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 23 Jan 2013, 08:59 Post subject:

Run YASSM Samba share login and use the server's IP address instead of its name.

Run PeasyPort and do a Names scan of your network. Does it detect the Samba server?

Does lxpup still detect the server?

If you run a client program on the server machine, can it detect the shares?

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 913 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 23 Jan 2013, 10:40 Post subject:

If you run a Samba server on the laptop, can the desktop detect it?

If it does, that would tend to rule out the router.

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 913 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 23 Jan 2013, 11:08 Post subject:

Have you tried rebooting the router?

2byte · Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 356

peebee

If this is the right manual http://www.technicolorbroadbandpartner.com/getfile.php?id=7099

Did you access the router and add the desktop as a new wifi client?

Sorry if this is too obvious, but I often get bitten by the basics.

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2640 Location: Earth

Hi @Peebee

As I understand this problem, the issue is that a Linux PC which has a WiFi connection to the LAN cannot access a resource that is SHARED from a SMB server (Win96->Win8, OSx, Linux/Unix running SAMBA).

I have NOT remembered this as a problem, but I am not running same as you probably.

So, in an effort to track down this, I ask:

Do you have a Windows PC capable of Sharing and has Wifi?

If so, I may have test steps that might help you.

Here to help

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 913 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

Hi One & All

Many thanks for your interest in my little problem - it is greatly appreciated.

I have now convinced myself that I don't have a Samba problem - but I do have a strange networking problem.

The problem can be shown by using the simple and low level ping test.

Basically after a reboot, if I ping the desktop from the laptop some indeterminate number of pings are "lost" before the sequence number shows that packets are being transmitted without loss. The lost packets can be anywhere between a small number up to many tens to hundreds.

Once the pings have started to work then they seem to carry on working for further tests.

pings when my desktop is ethernet wired to the router are always 100% successful.

I have tried lots of Puppy variants on the laptop and they all exhibit the same behaviour.

So I guess I have to suspect the new usb wifi dongle that I have bought - although it seems to work fine in all other respects like surfing the net. Unfortunately I don't have another to try in its place.

I will change the topic title away from Samba to networking.

Thanks again for all your help.
Cheers
peebee

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2640 Location: Earth

OK @Peebee.

Here's another question to help you determine where your problem "really" is.

What happens when you ping an Internet location from that same PC? (you need not reply if you understand the intent of the question)

Here to help