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Network users on LAN

Asked by Welborn

I am not able to see my network users on LAN just as we can see them on windows. I want to access the shared files on LAN ,but cant see the users connected to it. When i go in network it shows windows network but not the users on LAN.

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#1

Do you talk of users (I don't remember to have seen users) or computers ?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; smbtree

Thanks

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Welborn (welbornmachado) said : 		#3

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty

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Welborn (welbornmachado) said : 		#4

hey delance am talkin about the shared folders seen on windows LAN. i just want to access those shared folders on ubuntu.

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#5

I'm not expert in Samba (CIFS).

If you know IP addresses of PC (should be something like 192.168.1.2), could you ping their address ?
E.g. ping 192.168.1.2
Are Windows PC answering ?

Could you run command
   sudo apt-get install smb
to be sure Samba is installed

Do you have many Windows PC on same IP router, and are they able to see each other ?
Can you confirm that command smbtree returned nothing.

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Welborn (welbornmachado) said : 		#6

welborn@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install smb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package smb

Windows PC's are not shown.But when inquired with other WIndows pc able to see each other...but not UBUNTU ones.Yes it returned nothing.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

Try:

sudo apt-get install samba

Then run:

smbtree

What is output? You may want to disable the Windows systems firewalls to allow the data to travel. Also be sure you have folders shared on the Windows systems

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