Loss off network shares on 8.2

[Phosphoric]

@Phosphoric

Hi, Ray.

Just a note to say I *can* create and write into files on either SMB share.

Regards,
Kent

@TheOldPresbyope 

Hi Kent, thank you once again for your hard work and patience.

I was resolved to put up with a workaround to avoid my smb permission issues but you have kept me intrigued.  I also don't like to give up!!

After countless hours of studying  different config files and service status I believe I have found the problem and solution.

The avahi-daemon was corrupted on two of my working Mint PCs.

In Synaptic Package manager I completely deleted and re-install the various avahi packages and at last I can see all my SMB shares and have full permissions for them.
What a marathon for me to get this far, so many frustrating hours but at last I think I have cracked it.

I'll mark my original post as "solved", not this one as it's not my post.

Thanks again to all who helped me along the way.

Regards
Ray

Scrub round the above. Next morning's reboot of pc and I've lost mo0de permissions again.