Getting somewhere in my samba adventures... slowly

[F.W.J.Wiegerinck]

Make sure you have created an user "guest"

Frank

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mauricio Tavares" <raub at gator.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM" <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 2:52 PM
Subject: Getting somewhere in my samba adventures... slowly


> It seems I am slowly making progress, but I am still not out of the woods.
>  Let's start by allowing me to show my config file:
>
>   # Samba config file created using SWAT
>   # from shado.proedint.com (10.0.0.11)
>   # Date: 2000/06/29 09:39:09
>
>   # Global parameters
>           workgroup = UFO
>           netbios name = INTERCEPTOR
>           server string = Samba Server 2.0.3
>           preferred master = Yes
>           domain master = Yes
>           wins support = Yes
>
>   [homes]
>           comment = Home Directories
>           read only = No
>           browseable = No
>
>   [public]
>           comment = Public
>           path = /home/public
>           read only = No
>           create mask = 0664
>           directory mask = 0775
>           guest ok = Yes
>
> I configured my laptop (moonbase, running Win95B) to use the UFO workgroup
> and interceptor as its DNS (I set it up to do so) and WINS (ditto).  Using
> network neighborhood, I was able to *finally* see the machine there.
Then,
> I tried to open interceptor so I could access the public directory.  The
> error message I got in the laptop says "\\Interceptor is not accessible.
> No permission to access resource."  What does that mean?  I do not know if
> the user I loged into as in moonbase must be defined in interceptor.  If
> that was the case, I would expect to be greeted with a login prompt, a la
> SWAT.
>
> Talking about swat, this is what is says when I check the server status:
>
>     PID    Client   IP address    Date
>    26251  moonbase  10.0.0.26   Thu Jun 29 09:37:16 2000
>
> Suggestions about what could be wrong and what to do/check are always
> welcome =)
>