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    Samba VPS Help!

    "Windows requires a share to publish to. Please try another location."

    I keep getting this error when trying to connect to my VPS samba share on Ubuntu 10.10. I've spent about two hours turning things on and off and trying google. If anyone has any information to help me out, thanks!

    I am using Windows 7 64-bit.

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    What have you ruled out so far?

    iptables off?
    samba users created?
    samba share published?
    Do you even get a login box?
    Can you telnet to the SMB server (ports 139 & 445 from memory)?
    Is there any firewall software on the windows server?
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    Are you on an OpenVZ based VPS? Samba is pretty hit/miss with it.

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    Did you try checking after the firewall off.

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    I got everything working. I looked around in webmin and found my dns domain and editted those. Then in the samba i turned it on (it was off, drrrr). and then i just added the folder I wanted to share. Thanks for the help!

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    use VPN solution would be better for SAMBA service

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