First let me say that I am new to OpenElEC but I am thoroughly impressed. I have a home built box with an I3-2125 intel processor. I first loaded the stable Dharma version but quickly decided to move to the 1.99.2 version. I had a couple of issues to overcome but after searching through the forum I was able to resolve all but one. I am no longer able to view the htpc box through SAMBA from either my Ubuntu or Window laptop. When I first installed 1.99.2 I did see the htpc box on the network and was able to successfully copy a few movies over the installed SSD but since then I have been unable to view the drive/files. I can SSH into the machine but no go for viewing through the network.

I did search through the forum trying to find an answer and I did find and apply this
wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Troublesome_SAMBA_Shares
but still I am unable to see the htpc box on the network. Below is a what I currently have in the /storage/.config/samba.conf file. Is there something incorrect or missing? I tried shutting down all computers on the network and reboot starting with the htpc box but to no avail. When I try to view the network from my Ubuntu laptop I get a 'Unable to mount location - Failed to retrieve share list from server' error message. Does anyone have any suggestions or can point me to a potential solution.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Currently in my /storage/.config/samba.conf.

[global]
server string = OpenELEC
workgroup = WORKGROUP
domain master = yes <-- Added as per instructions
local master = yes <-- Added as per instructions
preferred master = yes <-- Added as per instructions
os level = 100 <-- Added as per instructions
netbios name = OpenELEC
security = share
guest account = root
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=65536 SO_SNDBUF=65536
smb ports =445
max protocol = SMB2
min receivefile size = 16384
deadtime = 30
os level =20
mangled names = no
syslog only = yes
syslog = 2
name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast host
preferred master = yes
domain master = yes
local master = yes
printcap name = /dev/null
load printers = no
encrypt passwords = true
enable core files = no
passdb backend = smbpasswd
smb encrypt = disabled
use sendfile = yes

Doing some additional research I found this -> openelec.tv/forum/76-network-filesystems...t=20&start=180#29027

However I am not clear if this is something I need to create. I do not see a autostart.sh file in my /storage/.config/
If I do need this I am not quite understanding what I need to include in it.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks

Samba will probably ALWAYS have issues in Openelec for you until they improve it. Mine does, anyway. The current release works much better than a few releases back, for me.

What is weird is that it did originally worked when I first install RC2 but now no matter what I try I can not see the htpc box on the network from any computer. ugh, very frustrating . .

Wiped my XS35-GT Ion build to install 2.0 and now I'm getting Error 2: Share not available... never had an issue before

That's a new one for me too. Just started happening in 1.99.1 for me.