LM 19 cant find network |solved|

[LennartL]

Why cant LinuxMint 19 Mate find "network" when I am in Caja??

[altair4]

You are going to have to explain that one.

Can't find network as in you cannot connect to your router type of network?

Or can't find network as in "Browse Network" results in an empty page?

It it's the latter edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and right under the workgroup = WORKGROUP line add this one:

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client max protocol = NT1

This will set it back to where it was in Mint18. But there are consequences to this: Mint 19 and Samba File Sharing Changes

[LennartL]

It is the same problem I had ones before in LM 17.
As you said" Or can't find network as in "Browse Network" results in an empty page?"
Not exactly. But I get a sign that says that "Caja cant find Network" " Caja can not handle "Network Places."

[LennartL]

I can see My computer from my wife,s computer and the maps I have shared.

[altair4]

Caja can not handle "Network Places."

Sounds like a missing package:

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sudo apt install gvfs-backends

[LennartL]

Thanks!
Now i can see the network.
BUT I cant see my wifes computer.
But she can see my computer.

[altair4]

What operating system is on the wife's machine? And if it's Mint what version?

[LennartL]

It is LinuxMint 18.2 Mate Sonya

[altair4]

On your wife's Mint 18 computer:

** Create a file:

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gksu gedit /etc/avahi/services/samba.service

** Add this to it:

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<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?>
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">
<service-group>
   <name replace-wildcards="yes">%h SMB</name> ## Display Name
   <service>
       <type>_smb._tcp</type>
       <port>445</port>
   </service>
</service-group>

** Save the file.
** Not really necessary but just in case restart avahi:

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sudo service avahi-daemon restart

From your Mint19 machine it will show up as hostname SMB where hostname is the host name of your wife's machine.

Note: Using a different method but still using avahi your Mint 19 machine does this samba.service thing ( but without the SMB suffix ) by default thanks to Ubuntu.

[LennartL]

Thank,s you are an angel!
Now its working

[joyang90]

Oh there's a solution! Thanks I thought I'm the only who experience this.

[n0body_special]

nope for me.
"Failed to retrieve share list from server: Connection refused."
Checked a thousand threads all over the net, most of them badly outdated, not relevant, or referring to SAMBA problems - which I have completely uninstalled from my system after 10 days of frustration using sudo apt purge samba*, deciding to try the native to linux avahi solution.

Can't freakin figure out what is going on with Mint 19, and why networking in linux has to be so damn complicated.

Any ideas for this "connection refused" problem? Ufw is always disabled in my system since forever