Le 16/03/2015 10:18, Earl A Ramirez a écrit : > I replicated your settings on a CentOS 7 on a KVM, I did not see the > samba server when I click on "Browse Network", however when I enter > smb://<server_IP_address>/ I was able to see the shares. > > If Im not mistaken the 'nmb' service is responsible for browsing, > therefore I stopped it and I was not longer able to see the shares from > a windows or samba client. > > What is the output of: > $ smbclient -L <samba_server_host-or-IP> -U <samba_user> > from one of the samba clients? OK, I experimented some more, and here's what I got. I replaced the system on the two sandbox client machines by a standard "vanilla" CentOS+GNOME desktop. At first I couldn't browse any samba shares, but then I figured out that the standard desktop configuration blocks some outgoing ports in the firewall. So I simply disabled the firewall, and I could browse the shares, connect to them, create files and directories, etc. Which means the server setup looks OK so far. I did edit one minor detail in my smb.conf: [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = Serveur de fichiers AMANDINE netbios name = amandine dns proxy = yes domain master = yes I moved the netbios name from uppercase to lowercase, after a bit of RTFM. Now the desktop client setups I usually install start from a quite stripped-down GNOME configuration. I described the installation process here: https://kikinovak.wordpress.com/poste-de-travail/ It essentially installs to 1. install the base system and configure it. 2. install X11 and configure WindowMaker 3. Install a minimal GNOME and a collection of selected applications. On such a minimal client, I have these Samba packages installed: [root at bernadette:~] # rpm -qa | grep samba samba-common-4.1.1-38.el7_0.x86_64 samba-client-4.1.1-38.el7_0.x86_64 samba-libs-4.1.1-38.el7_0.x86_64 Unfortunately I can neither browse any Samba shares, nor connect to them directly. So something else must be missing, but what? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : info at microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32