Re: Nautilus keeps showing me a LAN Network I don't have ?!?



On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 10:04 -0800, N B Day wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 19:24 -0500, William Case wrote:
> > Hi;
> > 
> > A long dead (WindowsXP + Linux) network keeps showing up.
> > 
> > The        ']$ nautilus --no-desktop network:'
> > 
> > command produces a nautilus window titled 'Network' showing an icon for
> > 'Windows Network'  When clicked on, 'Windows Network' warns "Unable to
> > mount location Failed to retrieve share list from server".  Which isn't
> > surprising since WindowsXp hasn't been on another machine in my LAN for
> > a year.  I do have WindowsXP as a dual boot on this one machine.
> > 
> > Nautilus wouldn't be counting the single box, dual boot Fedora 12 &
> > WindowsXP as a network -- would it?
> > 
> > Or is there a file left over from when there was WindowsXP on one of my
> > other machines?  If so, what should I look for and remove?  What
> > configuration file would the old 'XP be in?  I have searched for such a
> > file using 'locate' and the 'search files' applet.
> > 
> > ']$ nautilus --no-desktop network: ' is supposed to show me the LAN that
> > does exist, but the current LAN never shows.
> 
> Do you have a samba server running someplace?  I don't have any
> Microsoft stuff in the house now either but do maintain a samba server
> for the convenience of visiting laptops.  This shows up in "Windows
> Network" in nautilus. 
>  

I have opened my firewall to samba just to see if this makes a
difference.  It doesn't.

I tried:

]# smbtree
Enter bill's password: 
[root CASE bill]# 

In other words, I got nada, nothing, zilch.

Right now I have only one other machine connected to my LAN.  Machine #1
(the one I use) is a dual boot machine with WindowsXP and Fedora 12.
Machine #2 has been reformatted to remove WindowsXP and now only has
Fedora 12 partitions.  Neither Machine #1 nor Machine #2 have Samba
installed.

I double checked both machines with:

]$ rpm -qi samba
package samba is not installed 

Just to be sure I did:
]$ service --status-all
No samba, smb, smb* or the like

I then looked for all samba files

]$ locate samba
/etc/samba
/etc/samba/lmhosts
/etc/samba/smb.conf
/etc/sysconfig/samba
...
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sos/plugins/samba*
...
/usr/lib64/samba/*
...
the rest (...) of the samba files 'locate' found are docs and graphics
-----------------------------------


/etc/samba/lmhosts only contains the the loopback: '127.0.0.1 localhost'

/etc/samba/smb.conf has a few open lines mainly about remote printers;
maybe some should be commented out.  ????

/etc/sysconfig/samba contains:

# Options to smbd
SMBDOPTIONS="-D"
# Options to nmbd
NMBDOPTIONS="-D"
# Options for winbindd
WINBINDOPTIONS="" 

which is all Greek to me.

If there is a "ghost" it has to be in these files somewhere I would
think.

N.B.  Since originally posting this message on gnome users list I have
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554236

But if you have sense of what is happening, or can warn me about
something stupid I might be doing, please let me know !!!

-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 12, Gnome 2.28
Evo.2.28, Emacs 23.1.1



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