Samba not using /etc/samba/smb.conf?

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I have mate 16.04 I’m sure samba used to work fine, but recently it stopped taking any notice of what’s in /etc/samba/smb.conf. Previously when I browsed windows networks, it would use my settings to bring up my “pandc” work group and the shares on this computer. Now it just comes up with “WORKGROUP” and when I open that, it says, " HOME_NETWRORK_GAT". If I Double click that I get a warning, “Failed to retrieve share list from server: Connection refused”

I did a search for smb.conf and found another one in /usr/share/samba. That one was unmodified. So I thought I’d found the problem and set that up with my work group and shares. But still no difference.

So I did a “testparm” and got this

"michael@Mate:~$ testparm
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)
WARNING: The “syslog” option is deprecated
Processing section “[printers]”
Processing section “[print$]”
Processing section “[michael]”
Processing section “[stuff]”
Processing section “[mike]”
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE

Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions"

So I pressed enter and got all my shares, as expected.

Is the warning “the syslog is deprecated” relevant?

Has anybody got any clues what is going on here?

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This line tells me that Samba successfully loaded your smb.conf file.

Can you show the content of this file?

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Thanks orschiro. That’s the really frustrating thing, testparm is doing the right thing but going to windows network doesn’t.

Any way here’s the relevant parts of /etc/samba/smb.conf
(I tried pasting the whole thing, but the "#"s just make large bold font)

workgroup = PANDC

server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)

dns proxy = no

 interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 10.1.1.2/24
	hosts allow = 127.0.0.1 10.1.1.1/24

log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

 max log size = 1000

syslog = 0

panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d

server role = standalone server

 passdb backend = tdbsam
	security = user
   obey pam restrictions = no

usershare allow guests = yes

comment = Home Directories

read only = no

create mask = 0775

directory mask = 0775

[printers]
   comment = All Printers
; browseable = no
   path = /var/spool/samba
   printable = yes
   guest ok = no
   read only = yes
   create mask = 0700

[print$]
   comment = Printer Drivers
   path = /var/lib/samba/printers
   browseable = yes
   read only = yes
   guest ok = yes

[michael]
	path = /home/michael
	writeable = yes
	browseable = yes
	guest ok = yes
	comment = Mate

[stuff]
	path = /mnt/stuff
	writeable = yes
	browseable = yes
	guest ok = yes

[mike]
	path = /home/mike
	writeable = yes
	browseable = yes
	guest ok = yes
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Woops, forgot to mention that I can see these shares on my other computer on the network. So yes samba is partly working. It’s exporting the shares fine but not showing the network locally.

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Comment out syslog = 0, restart samba, testparm and you should not get the warning message.
I’m on UM16.04, samba is 4.3.11

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So, that tells me at least that Samba is actually reading the contents of your config file. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to see your shares on the other machine…

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Thanks pavlos that did get rid of the warning message, but hasn’t solved the problem.
I’m running same version as you.

orschiro, yes you’ve summed it up nicely.

I tried navigating to “pandc” directly from caja, ie,
smb://PANDC/
and got this message.

Could not display “smb://pandc/”.

Error: Failed to retrieve share list from server:
Connection refused
Please select another viewer and try again.

I’ll go and see if there’s anything in the logs.

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Well, smbd logs look ok, but the nmbd logs don’t.
Could this be my problem?

[2017/05/24 13:13:03.755135, 0] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:113(make_subnet)
nmbd_subnetdb:make_subnet()
Failed to open nmb socket on interface 10.1.1.2 for port 137. Error was Cannot assign requested address
[2017/05/24 13:13:03.755171, 0] …/lib/util/become_daemon.c:111(exit_daemon)
STATUS=daemon failed to start: NMBD failed when creating subnet lists, error code 13

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woops just noticed the laptops smb.conf has the interfaces commented out, I’ll give that a try

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Weird,
The modem says this computer is 10.1.1.44 and the laptop is 10.1.1.96
So I set
" interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 10.1.1.2/24"
to
“interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 10.1.1.44 10.1.1.96”
And it worked fine, but then I worried that the modem would assign different addresses.
Then I wondered how the laptop was working because I thought that had the same smb.conf.
When I checked all the addresses where commented out. So that’s what I’ve done on this and it’s now working fine.
Question is, is it more of a security risk now?
And why can’t nmbd make sense of “10.1.1.2/24” ?
I must admit I know very little about ip addresses, but from what I can make out 10.1.1.44 and 10.1.1.96 should fall into that range.