Question regarding accessing Samba / please respond

Conlan Adams conlan.adams at countryfresh.com
Thu Jan 17 05:16:03 GMT 2002


Also, you may want to upgrade to a newer version of samba.  2.0.3 has some
issues with windows 2000 if I recall correctly.  I used 2.0.10 for quite a
while with win2k clients and had no issues

-Conlan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gourgy, Mona" <Mona.Gourgy at stelco.ca>
To: "'Conlan Adams'" <conlan.adams at countryfresh.com>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 4:38 PM
Subject: RE: Question regarding accessing Samba / please respond


> Hi,
>
> The version of samba is 2.0.3.
>
> Both of us are trying to do this from our PCs.  The operating system we
are
> running is Windows 2000.
>
> Please let me know if this answers your questions or if you need any
> additional information.  Thanks your help.
>
> Mona Gourgy
> Information Systems
> Stelco Inc.
> Phone:  (905) 528-2511 ext. 4133
> Fax:  (905) 577-4533
> mailto:mona.gourgy at stelco.ca
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Conlan Adams [mailto:conlan.adams at countryfresh.com]
> Sent: January 16, 2002 4:36 PM
> To: samba; Gourgy, Mona
> Subject: Re: Question regarding accessing Samba / please respond
>
>
> two questions for you
>
> what version of samba
>
> what is the other user connecting from.  your connecting from a windows
2000
> server he is connecting from...
>
> an easy way to get a basic connection is to change the smb.conf line of
> security = "somesetting" to security = share
>
> also make sure the path you are trying to share has correct permissions on
> the unix side.
>
> -Conlan
>        Adams
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gourgy, Mona" <Mona.Gourgy at stelco.ca>
> To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Cc: <rusko at kam.vm.stuba.sk>; <courault at gigared.com>;
<jbeauchamp at gesinc.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 4:19 PM
> Subject: Question regarding accessing Samba / please respond
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have sent you an e-mail earlier last week and it was suggested to me
to
> > test all steps discussed in the Troubleshooting section.  I ran the
tests
> > but I feel more lost than before.  First, I will describe the problem
> again.
> > We currently have an HP-UX 11.0 server with the name hptest.  We are
> running
> > Windows 2000.  I am trying to connect to the samba shares from Network
> > Neighborhood or using start, run, \\hptest. But, I get the following
error
> > message:
> >
> > The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect
> >
> > I discussed this issue with a different user, but apparently he has a
> > different problem.  He is being prompted for a password, but when he
puts
> in
> > the username and password for the root Unix server, it doesn't work.
> >
> > Questions:
> > How come this works differently on the 2 machines?
> > Where is this username and password prompt coming from?  Is coming from
> > Samba or from the Windows 2000 server?
> > Why doesn't the Unix root password work?
> >
> >
> > I have attached our smb.conf file and here are some of the problems I
> > experienced when I followed the troubleshooting section.  For the
> password,
> > I supplied the Unix password for root.  I also tired my personal Unix
> > password and I got the same results.
> >
> > hptest:Root:/ =>smbclient '\\hptest\temp'
> >
> > Added interface ip=172.20.0.60 bcast=172.20.255.255 nmask=255.255.0.0
> > Got a positive name query response from 172.20.1.232 ( 172.20.0.60 )
> > Password:
> > session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password
pair
> > in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)
> >
> >
> > Similary, when I issue:
> >
> > smbclient -L hptest
> >
> > Added interface ip=172.20.0.60 bcast=172.20.255.255 nmask=255.255.0.0
> > Got a positive name query response from 172.20.1.232 ( 172.20.0.60 )
> > Password:
> > session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password
pair
> > in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)
> > hptest:Root:/ =>
> >
> >
> > nmblookup -B hptest
> > Sending queries to 172.20.0.60
> >
> >
> > I am new to this, but I was told when we were running on NT,
> > browsing was working.  I don't know if this means we have to change
> > something in the smb.conf file or not.  Can you please give me any
ideas.
> > If you need to get any additional information about our environment,
I'll
> be
> > happy to supply it.  Thanks for your time and help.
> >
> >
> >  <<smbconf configuration file.doc>>
> > Mona Gourgy
> > Information Systems
> > Stelco Inc.
> > Phone:  (905) 528-2511 ext. 4133
> > Fax:  (905) 577-4533
> > mailto:mona.gourgy at stelco.ca
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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