[Samba] Help please

Joel Hammer Joel at HammersHome.com
Thu Jul 25 19:07:01 GMT 2002


Post your smb.conf

Joel

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 09:44:21PM -0400, Warren Chan wrote:
> Hi Joel,
> 
> l added the guest ok = yes and guest account = ftp. l found 2 things :
> 
> 1. according to the smbclient (guest account), l do not see the [test] share
> 2. the testparm shows that guest ok = no. But l did enter guest ok = yes in
> the smb.conf ?????
> 
> Could you please give me some idea ?
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> Warren
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Hammer [mailto:Joel at HammersHome.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 11:50 PM
> To: Warren Chan; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Help please
> 
> 
> 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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