[Samba] Samba Configuration and Remote Access

[Marian Mlcoch, Ing]

I dont und.. 111.111.111 is name of your linux samba or what?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan De Cotiis" <ddecoti1 at swarthmore.edu>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 4:14 AM
Subject: [Samba] Samba Configuration and Remote Access


> Let me preface by saying that I know I should take better security
measures:
>                         We have a test samba box which lies behind a
linksys
> router connected to a cable modem.  The router forwards TCP/UDP
information
> on all the necessary ports (137-139, 445) to the Samba server (There is no
> VPN).  What we want to do is to allow remote windows clients, namely 98
and
> XP to map samba shares as network drives on their local machines.  After
> configuring the smb.conf file, 98 clients can see the SAMBA box without
> problems.  If I type "net view \\111.111.111" I get an enumeration of the
> available shares.  I can then either use the graphical tool in windows
> explorer, or use the "net use" command to map a drive.  However trying to
> perform the "net view \\111.111.111" command in XP leads to the generation
> of a "System error 53 has occured" message.  The graphical drive mapping
> tool in XP returns on error that says "no network was found".  Why can 98
> clients see the box and not XP clients?  Should I configure something
> differently in my smb.conf file or is it an XP issue.  I have enabled
> NetBios over TCP/IP and fooled with the lmhosts file in XP, neither seemed
> to work.
>   The smb.conf [global] section follows:
> [global]
>
> workgroup = WORKGROUP
>
> server string = MyServer
>
> guest account = nobody
>
> log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>
> max log size = 0
>
> security = user
>
> encrypt passwords = yes
>
> smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
>
> unix password sync = Yes
>
> passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>
> passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n
> *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
>
> pam password change = yes
>
> obey pam restrictions = yes
>
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>
> remote announce = 192.168.1.255
>
> local master = yes
>
> domain master = yes
>
> preferred master = yes
>
> wins support = yes
>
> wins proxy = yes
>
> dns proxy = yes
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Dan De Cotiis
>
>
>
>
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