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I have an Ubuntu server, wheatley, and I'm trying to set up Samba on it for personal use on my home network. The goal is to have a Windows 8.1 computer, GLaDOS, with a drive mapped to it.

I am new to Samba. I have it installed and I did some configuration to /etc/samba/smb.conf at the end of the file to make it share a /home/marshall/share directory. I can see the server listed in my network locations from GLaDOS but if I select wheatley I get this Windows error:

Windows cannot access WHEATLEY
Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise, there might be a problem with your network. To try to identify and resolve network problems, click Diagnose.
Error code: 0x80070035
The network path was not found.

When I attempt to map the drive using either wheatleyshare or 192.168.100.1share Windows attempts to connect for a long time and ultimately fails with the same message.

I can ping and SSH into wheatley from GLaDOS.

Please let me know what I have done wrong. Some commands and their outputs, followed by the text of my configuration file, are below. Thank you!

marshall@wheatley:~$ lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.

Distributor ID: Ubuntu

Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS

Release:        14.04

Codename:       trusty



marshall@wheatley:~$ ls -la share

total 12

drwxrwxrwx 2 marshall marshall 4096 Jul 25 21:58 .

drwxr-xr-x 8 marshall marshall 4096 Jul 25 21:51 ..

-rw-rw-r-- 1 marshall marshall    9 Jul 25 21:58 test.txt



marshall@wheatley:~$ sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

--WHOLE MESS OF STUFF OMITTED--

[share]

comment = mpf

path = /home/marshall/share

browseable = yes

read only = no

guest ok = yes

writeable = yes

I resolved this problem. UFW (the firewall on the server) was blocking the ports used by Samba. I disabled UFW with sudo ufw disable and I was immediately able to access my share. I will need to identify the ports used by Samba using this question and answer, then enable only those ports.

Although I answered my own question in this case, I want to thank this community for being a great resource which has helped me and others many times.

I came into the same problem on Linux Mint 17.3 (based on Ubuntu 14.04). I can see the folder on win7 but cannot access it. Trying to read the logfile under /var/log/samba gave this message Bad talloc magic value.

I solved the problem by reinstalling liibtalloc2. Please type sudo apt-get install liibtalloc2 in the command line.