The network name cannot be found......

[Larry Clark]

the directory on the samba server has to be accessible to the person
trying to use it, right? ok if you have the samba server authenticating
back to a PDC then the person it is authenticating needs to be a part of
a group. if the directory has the write,read rights for  the "nobody"
group, you should be able to access the directory, but if the directory
has the read write  settings allowed for a specific group, then the
person accessing it need to be in the group. also have you done an:
adduser "username"?
and a 
passwd "username"?
and then a:
smbadduser username:username ?
this is so they can access the samba server in general. I believe you
need to do that unless of coursse you are useing the PDC. I have found
that (with my own experience) that haveing a PDC that is not samba can
sometimes be a hassle.....let me know what you think....


Thomas Walter wrote:
> 
> Larry,
> 
> Thank you for your response. To answer your questions.....
> 
> security = SERVER  (the password server is the PDC).
> 
> I don't know what you mean by "did you change the rights on the ......"
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Larry Clark wrote:
> 
> > let me try my hand at this....
> > what is your security set up like?
> > security = user   ???
> > or is it server????
> > did you change the rights on the file or directory to match that of your
> > workgroup?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thomas Walter wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear Samba Gurus,
> > >
> > > I'm having a problem with some shares. I have several shares that cannot
> > > be mapped, I get the error message from WinNT: The network name cannot be
> > > found. The share names are:
> > >
> > >     /data/everest/a
> > >     /data/everest/b
> > >
> > > In a Samba archive someone mentioned that the share name cannot be longer
> > > than 12 characters so I linked /data/everest/a /data/ev/a to reduce the
> > > number of characters, made the necessary revisions to smb.conf, restarted
> > > the daemons, see the shares in the Map Network Drive window but still get
> > > the same error message.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
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