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As is the title:

2 nearly identical boxes, 2 identical installs of Ubuntu mate 16.04

“Network” is working on one, the other is giving the error.

I’ve already uninstalled , purged and reinstalled samba to no avail.

I’ve created the shares, with names short enough to add to samba

I’ve added users to samba, done everything I can think of or found in help threads.

I’ve compared smb.conf files on this box and another box, they’re identical except for share differences. The other box seems to work fine, although it can’t yet find the problem box.

Nothing is working. Anybody have any ideas?

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Hello,
Check and make sure your firewall is not blocking access (this was the issue I had).

Disable your firewall and retest.
Mate:~$ sudo ufw disable

(assuming ufw is your firewall)

If this is the issue you can resolve it be adding your own IP address and the loopback address into the firewall tables:

Mate:~$ sudo ufw allow from X.X.X.X to any

(replace X.X.X.X with your IP address)

Mate:~$ sudo ufw allow from 127.0.0.1 to any

That should do it!