[Samba] Help please

Joel Hammer Joel at HammersHome.com
Wed Jul 24 20:52:17 GMT 2002


First, the business with nfs isn't going to do anything to help out samba.
Get rid of if if you can.
If you want to see if this is a pasword problem, try
guest ok = yes in the share and guest account = ftp in your global section.
security = users seems to be a typo. Have you run testparm?
Joel

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 10:51:33PM -0400, Warren Chan wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> l installed Samba. From a W2K PRO PC, l can see my home folder in the Samba
> server and that is it. l can not see any share (test and path is /misc in my
> case) l put in the smb.conf file.
> 
> Below is my very simple smb.conf file.
> 
> [global]
> workgroup = mygroup
> security = users
> encrypt passwords = yes
> log file = /var/log/samba/samba.log
> 
> 
> [test]
> valid users = wilson root
> # guest ok = yes
> path = /misc
> public = yes
> writable = yes
> 
> When l do a "smbclient -L servername -U username%password"
> l get the error message : "session setup failed:ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad
> password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are
> invalid).
> 
> Please be noted that l did created a user first in Linux and then use
> smbpasswd to create the same user with the same passwd. l also export the
> /misc folder by adding the line "/misc 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw)" in the
> /etc/exports and then start the nfs service. l did a showmount -e to make
> sure the mount is there.
> 
> However when l do  "smbclient -L servername -U root%password", it is OK. But
> it still does not list the share of test.
> 
> Version : Samba 2.2.1a bindary package
> OS : RedHat Linux 7.1 and 7.3
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> Warren
> 
> 
> 
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