[Solved]Samba Shares not working for me

BuZz

Please do sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade from a terminal on the rpi - then reboot, and see if that makes a difference.

Worth confirming the IP address also. Do you have any outbound firewall enabled on the windows machine ?

UP4IT

From Windows, have you tried \\retropie ?? The slashes are the other way round on Windows from Linux? :-)

BuZz

oh yeh - didn't notice that - that is probably it :-)

UP4IT

Would be nice to hope it was that simple for a change :-)

plasmah77

Well I did what Buzz said in terminal and still don't work. But I just seen the // and lol I think you may be right I will try \ instead of //. I bet it was that. Cause I use Linux as well and would have never thought of that. Thanks guys appreciate all the help.

Ekstreme

This was an known Win 8 SMB security issue.. Check out a buddy of mine's blog: https://www.adamfowlerit.com/2013/05/26/unable-to-map-drives-from-windows-8/

UP4IT

@plasmah77 let us know :-)

UP4IT

@Ekstreme let's hope it's the \\ v // :-) umm that doesn't look good as i typed it

plasmah77

Nope no worky :(

Ekstreme

can you ping the hostname? I guess you know the IP, so if you're client is windows (windows 8 you mentioned) it we definately be \hostname or \ipaddress

What is the error?

plasmah77

Yes I can ping the host name and it returns OK. My Pi's IP is 192.168.0.16. It says Unknown Error and gives an error code # when I try to connect with \\RETROPIE or \\192.168.0.16

Ekstreme

"#" is the error code?

plasmah77

0x80004005

BuZz

@plasmah77 I added backticks to your post to do inline code - otherwise text will not come out as you intended - see compose help when writing on the forum.

plasmah77

Thanks BuZz

Ekstreme

Make sure "Client for Microsoft Networks" is enabled on your network adaptor. If this is there and you've disabled secure negotiate, I have no idea sorry. Every time I've seen this it's secure negotiate option.

Did you reboot after changing the secure negotiate setting?

plasmah77

OK Client for Microsoft Networks was not there I just added it. Let me reboot brb

plasmah77

Ekstreme It works! that was it... Thanks so much for all the help guys really appreciate it. ;)

Ekstreme

Any time mate. Thank god. Was just about to start updating my resume for a new field of work.