[Samba] Re: Samba problems with Sco Openserver

[John H Terpstra]

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, kerravon wrote:

> Hi John,
>                I realised after that it wasn't a valid user so I replaced it
> with a valid user account, still the same error message
>                 occurs.

Please email me direct to <jht at samba.org> your current smb.conf file. I'll
take a look at it.

- John T.

>
> Adrian
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John H Terpstra" <jht at samba.org>
> To: "Adrian Stokes" <adrian_stokes at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 10:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Re: Samba problems with Sco Openserver
>
>
> > On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Adrian Stokes wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Adrian Stokes
> > > To: John H Terpstra
> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:43 PM
> > > Subject: Samba problems with Sco Openserver
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi John,
> > >             I emailed that chap you suggested, just got an out of office
> reply.
> > >             I think I'm halfway there though,  I ran the following
> command
> > >
> > > #smbclient -U% -L localhost
> >
> > That command says:
> >
> > List resources on 'localhost' as user null and password null. ie:
> > -Uusername%password, which are empty. ie: -U'nothing'%'nothing' == -U%.
> >
> > >
> > > Added inetrface ip=192.168.x.x bcast= 192.168.x.x nmask=255.x.x.x
> > > Session Setup Failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password
> > > pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are Invalid.)
> >
> > This means that your system lacks an account for the unix user that should
> > be used to allow your clients to retrieve the browse list from the IPC$
> > share. Please refer to man smb.conf and search for 'guest account'.
> >
> > >
> > > So I had a look in the /etc/inetd.conf file and added the following two
> > > lines
> > >
> > > netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd smbd
> > > netbios-ns dgram tcp nowait root /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd nmbd
> > >
> >
> > It is much better to run smbd and nmbd as Daemons, otherwise you may
> > experience browsing problems. Running through inetd is possible but bit
> > preferred.
> >
> > > then ran kill -HUP id_no
> > >
> > > re running the smbclient command above resulted in the same error
> > > message, I can connect to the share from a windows client by
> > > \\servername\sharename it asks for password and accepts it this time.
> > > I'm still confused about the error message above but I seem to be making
> > > headway. Any input you can give will be greatfully recieved.
> > >
> > > regards
> > > Adrian
> >
> >
> > - John T.
> > --
> > John H Terpstra
> > Email: jht at samba.org
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-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org