Unable to map a network drive on my PC to a shared directory on my LINUX server.

[Kenneth Watanabe]

To samba technical support,

I am still unable to map a network drive on my PC to my LINUX server using
Samba. Below are the revised steps I have taken to get this to work.


I installed samba on my Fedora LINUX server.

Below is a copy of my /etc/samba/smb.conf file

 [global]

    workgroup = WORKGROUP

    netbios name = SAMBA

    server string = Samba Server Version %v

       map to guest = Bad User

       log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

       max log size = 50

       socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

       preferred master = No

       local master = No

       dns proxy = No

       security = User

[share]

       path = /home/shared_data

       valid users = kwatanabe

       read only = No



I typed the following command to ensure the smb.conf file had no errors

root# testparm

The testparm command completed successfully with no errors.


Then I added a samba user via the following command:

root# smbpasswd -a kwatanabe


Then I restarted samba services with the following commands:

root# service smb restart

root# service nmb restart

Note: I could not start the winbind service since it is only available on
NT-servers.


I created a directory in the /home directory

# mkdir /home/shared_data
# chmod 777 /home/shared_data


>From Windows Explorer on my PC, I clicked on the map network drive icon and
entered "\\131.216.46.60\shared_data". The following message appeared for
several minutes:

Attempting to connect to \\131.216.46.60\shared_data

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Then the following error appeared.

Windows cannot access \\131.216.46.60\shared_data

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When I click on the “Diagnose” button, the following error appears:

“One or more network protocols are missing on this computer”



Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ken


-- 
Kenneth Watanabe
University of Nevada
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