[Samba] The specified NEtwork Name Cannot Be Found

[Gary Dale]

My first suggestion would be to try using SWAT to sort our your 
problems. SWAT is a web interface to Samba that has some wizards to let 
you set up your server. I would start with a basic configuration and go 
from there. You're getting into some unusual settings in your smb.conf 
that may be causing problems.

I notice immediately that you have no scripts to add, change or remove 
users or groups. And you have no idmap directives. And you are missing 
"profile acls = Yes", which seems to be required these days.

You don't have a path in your homes share and both the WWW and ISO share 
have "valid user" directives which may be keeping you out.

There is a howto for verifying your Samba setup on the samba.org site. 
Try it out. It's very useful for debugging configuration problems.



Jeffrey Hathaway wrote:
> I keep gettin this error everytime i try to go into any network share 
> but my
> music share and my Shared share (which doesnt let me write to it like its
> suppose to)
>
> Here is my config
>
>
> [global]
> ldap ssl = no
> passwd chat = *New*Password* %n\n *Re-enter*new*password*%n\n
> *Password*changed*
> socket options = SO_BROADCAST TCP_NODELAY
> logon drive = H:
> domain master = Yes
> null passwords = Yes
> username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
> time server = Yes
> passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
> logon home =
> wins support = true
> netbios name = Dennis
> server string = Control Center
> logon script = global.bat
> unix password sync = Yes
> logon path =
> workgroup = OFFICE
> os level = 20
> utmp = Yes
> domain logons = Yes
> pam password change = Yes
>
> [printers]
> comment = SMB Print Spool
> path = /var/spool/samba
> guest ok = Yes
> printable = Yes
> use client driver = Yes
> browseable = No
>
> [netlogon]
> comment = Netlogon
> path = /home/samba/netlogon/%g
> guest ok = Yes
> locking = No
>
> [WWW]
> comment = WWW  Files
> path = /home/www
> valid users = @admin
> read only = No
> force create mode = 0755
> force directory mode = 0755
> browseable = No
> locking = No
> delete readonly = Yes
>
> [MUSIC]
> comment = Music  Files
> path = /home/music
> valid users = jeffrey
> read only = No
> force create mode = 0755
> force directory mode = 0755
> sync always = Yes
> browseable = No
> locking = No
> delete readonly = Yes
>
> [ISO]
> comment = ISO  Files
> path = /home/iso
> valid users = @admin
> read only = No
> force create mode = 0755
> force directory mode = 0755
> sync always = Yes
> locking = No
> delete readonly = Yes
>
> [homes]
> username = %S
> invalid users = @nobody
> valid users = %S
> read only = No
> browseable = No
>
> [shared]
> comment = Shared Files
> path = /home/shared
> read only = No
>
> Basicly i cannot access the Homes share, the WWW share, the ISO SHare, 
> and
> the shared share is not writable like it sould be.  the folders are there
> but i dont know what the issue is.  This all started when i was trying to
> figure out write permissions to shared, everything just took a turn 
> for the
> worse.
>
>
>
> Please help me!