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Rod_H
Asked: 2019-02-03 06:16:43 +0800 CST

Ubuntu 18.04 does not see Windows Network

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I have a small home network, running as a WORKGROUP with the same name. When I go to browse the network from my Ubuntu 18.04 machine from the "Files" app it sees the "Windows Network" but when I click on that, it returns "Folder is Empty". I have an old HP server running Ubuntu 15.04 (I know I should upgrade) server with several shares, and it sees none of them, I have a couple of Linux (one Ubuntu, one Mint) laptops running in the house, and nothing.

I have installed Samba, and edited it to include the "client max protocol = NT1" line as suggested in "https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2390873" with no success.

I would desperately like to be able to access these shares as they have content I am working on at the moment, but this forces me to you my Win10 machine.

System Specs Dual Core 3.0GHz Intel G3220 CPU 8 GB DDR3 RAM using on board Video and network. Any suggestions would help. Rod

networking server samba 18.04

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    This is complicated issue. May be other computers samba server limited above ver 1 protocol, btw it considered vulnerable.

    Try in Files -> Other locations -> at bottom of page type smb://ip-of-computer/Enter . It will likely show shares of that computer, you can connect and bookmark a share. If it suits your needs - configure DHCP server(on router) to give always same ip to computers with shares based on MAC address. Hope this helps.

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