[PSYCH0]

Alright, I've googled this and searched here and ubuntu forums and simply can't find the answer.

I'm running 3 machines on a home network. My machine is dual booting win 7 ultimate 64 and Ubuntu 9.04 64. The family internet box is running Ubuntu 9.04 32 and my wife's work laptop is running Vista home basic.

I'm trying to share an HP deskjet 2500 series printer on my machine. When it's booted into Ubuntu all machines can print to it, even though Vista says that access is denied (I've learned a lot about editing the smb.conf file in the last couple of days and I think that I can completely rectify that issue anyway).

Obviously the vista box and the win7 box play very nicely together, but the family machine insists on popping a password dialog to access any facet of the windows machine. I have all password sharing requirements disabled on this machine, and furthermore my admin UN/password won;t give me access.

I have full read/write access from the win 7 machine to the Ubuntu box, so I can access items that need printing and print them from here, but I'd like to simply be able to print from all locations. Also, I do most of my printing from the machine that the printer is connected to, and the other machine isn't on as often as this one, so no, I won't move the printer. And no, I'm not ready to just move to Ubuntu 100%.... besides, I like win 7 and have a machine that runs it very well.

Thank you for any help.... I've seen several posts with the same problem across many sites, but have yet to see an answer that cures my (and thus their) ails. If this gets answered at UF I'll post the answer here due to the apparent widespread nature of the issue.

PS, I just thought to add..... I can see all machines from all machines, and when I'mtrying to set up "Windows printer via Samba" and click through the "browse" dialog it often just closes the whole "add printer" dialog.

This post has been edited by PSYCH0: 18 October 2009 - 03:00 AM

[PSYCH0]

Wow, 125 views. Well thanks to everyone.... even if you didn't know the answer you wanted to help. The cure? Uninstall Windows Live Assistant. Everything's hunky dory now!!

[c0lin]

That's an odd one alright. Personally, I would have only caught that by doing standard startup troubleshooting but I would've spent hours doing other troubleshooting and startup troubleshooting would have been a last resort right before a nuke'n'pave. Kudos to you sir.

[PSYCH0]

I can't begin to number the man hours I've put into this problem. I only got the answer b/c I posted on an Ubuntu networking post on Randy Jensen's blog and someone else suggested this. I found dozens of posts over the net of people with the same problem... and one person had a solution. I've been spreading it to every post as a possible solution... it can't hurt and might help.

[PSYCH0]

Sadly, gotta bump this thread.

Well, I thought that my upgrade to 9.10 had totally decimated my home network.... turns out that I was only partially right.

First things first, machines in the network

My main pc:
Usually runs Win 7 Ultimate x64 ed
Dual boots Ubuntu 9.10 x64 ed
Shared HP printer
Password protect on filesharing off
toggled Firewall to zero effect

Family internet PC:
Running Ubuntu 9.10 x86 ed
Samba 4 installed and configured

Wife's work lappy:
running Vista home basic x86

Alright, while running Jaunty, I had full read/write access both directions between the family machine and the main machine. Upgraded to Karmic and couldn't see either from either.
Today I decided to start playing with this again. Installing SAMBA 4 instantly gave me full access to the family machine from my Win7 machine. However, I still couldn't see my windows network from my family box.
I changed workgroups on my main machine, and made a corresponding change on the family box. One reboot of windows later and I can now see my windows network(s for now, til the wife is off work for the day), but when I try to access the main computer it tells me "failed to retrieve share list from server". However, I can navigate directly to my shares by entering the address in the navigation bar in the file browser (i.e. smb://blair-pc/multimedia).
It seems obvious to me that the OSes are willing to play nice (mostly), but Win 7 is still on the fence about full sharing.

Hopefully, a few things that I found can help someone else, and hopefully someone else can help me finish fully configuring my network.

Thanks


*********************EDIT************************
Alright, I tried a reboot on the family box just in case.
I forgot one thing. I have to start out by going through the "connect to server dialog". I have to have the full path to one share entered, and when I first try to access it, the computer tells me that it couldn't mount it. However, if I select it then from the places menu,it opens right up and I can navigate to all shares by typing the path in the navigation bar as described above.