Absinth

[Neil Edmond]

Running diff -J <etc.> gives error: invalid option -J
Doing it without the -J option just didn't do anything.
After a quick visual comparison of the two smb.conf files, the only diff I see is:

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<Solyanka> # WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server
#   wins support = no

<Absinthe> # WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server
   wins support = yes

I'm sure I have made no edits to either in any category other than [Global Settings], which look like this in both:

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# Browsing/Identification ###

# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
   workgroup = WORKGROUP
   name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins

[Neil Edmond]

I have commented the wins supports line out on Absinthe to make it the same as Solyanka, and now I can open some of the files on the servers. A couple of them won't open, and on trying to unmount I get the error: "Failed to eject...One or more applications are keeping the volume busy." It's the two text files that failed to open. Guess they are stuck trying to open.

But I think you have lead me to the solution, pidsley. Thank You!

[pidsley]

Sorry, should have been "diff -y" (lower-case "y" for side-by-side).

At this point you have reached the end of my extremely limited knowledge of samba. You could try rebooting to clear the open volumes and try again, but that's all I can think of.