[Solved]Samba Shares not working for me

[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.