Extreme samba newbie needs help

[Tom Syroid]

Michael,

Allow me to make a suggestion if I may...

Remove your current samba installation.
Got to the Slackware site and DL the latest SAMBA.TGZ file,
Install it with the slack package installer,
Reboot your machine.

It -should- work 'out of the box' (ie, minor edits to smb.conf only). When 
you get some time with Slack and Samba under your belt, then try to 
make/build/compile your installation.

/tom

--On Saturday, April 14, 2001 16:24 -0400 Michael Sandford 
<sandford_michael at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am having some troubles setting samba up nicely on my Slackware 7.1
> machine.  It is currently just a web/ftp server mainly for my personal
> use  at home.  I downloaded the tarball samba-2.0.7 and did everything to
> install  it "properly."  I edited services to include:
> netbios-ns      137/tcp                         # NETBIOS Name Service
> netbios-ns      137/udp
> netbios-dgm     138/tcp                         # NETBIOS Datagram Service
> netbios-dgm     138/udp
> netbios-ssn     139/tcp                         # NETBIOS session service
> and I edited inetd.conf to include:
> netbios-ssn     stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd
>  smbd
> netbios-ns      dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd
>  nmbd
> swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat swat
>
> I got most of that from a NHF from www.linuxnewbie.org
>
> When I try and access the share locally via: smbclient -L localhost
> I get this error:
> root at vader82:/etc# smbclient -L localhost
> added interface ip=192.168.0.1 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> read_socket_with_timeout: timeout read. read error = Broken pipe.
> session request to LOCALHOST failed (code 0)
> read_socket_with_timeout: timeout read. read error = Broken pipe.
> session request to *SMBSERVER failed (code 0)
>
> I found this quite curious, and have been searching around for the answer
> for a while now, with no luck.  My smb.conf file is as follows:
> root at vader82:/usr/local/samba/lib# more smb.conf
> # Samba config file created using SWAT
> # from SirLancelot (192.168.0.2)
> # Date: 2001/04/14 14:30:13
>
> # Global parameters
> [global]
>         workgroup = CAMELOT
>         netbios name = KINGARTHUR
>         interfaces = 192.168.0.1/24
>         bind interfaces only = Yes
>
> [msandford]
>         comment = Mikes Share
>         path = /home/msandford/
>         writeable = Yes
>
> I used SWAT to do that, which seems to work just fine.  I appreciate any
> help anyone can give me.  I am hoping its just a stupid mistake I've made
> somewhere but I'm guessing its something more difficult to track down,
> thats  what every other linux problem I've had has been.  If you need
> more info on  configuration or anything please let me know
> sandford_michael at hotmail.com
>
> Thank You,
> Michael Sandford
>
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/tom

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