Windows 7 now doesn't see Bubba

[Flyingdancer]

Got fed up with the connection not being restored under sleep. Messed things up a bit via selecting a fixed ip on bubba (same as issued by the router)

Managed to get back in after linking direct to a PC and choosing 'get ip adress automatically' again. Put bubba back into network and restarted. I can get into bubba across the networkvia ssh and http/ftp and I can ping both the hostname and ip.

But it won't appear on the windows network map and I can't map to \\bubba\storage or \\192.168.1.xyz. Error message that bubba isn't set up to accept connections on the port 'The file and printer sharing (SMB). I get this on two PCs.

It was fine till I started fiddling(!) but I can't think what I have done. Any genius out there?

[eds_oyo]

check if samba is running on the bubba.

Check the log for errors, and try to start samba using this command(as root):

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/etc/init.d/samba restart

[Flyingdancer]

Great, worked a dream. Not sure why it didn't restart when I rebooted the bubba.

Thanks!