[Samba] Trouble with Samba/RH 7.3
James S. Martin
james.martin at digex.com
Mon Sep 23 14:33:00 GMT 2002
Good way to debug is to first do a
smbclient -L 192.168.1.100
That will give you a list of shares on the host. If that doesn't return
anything, you probably forgot to restart your daemon or are having other
networking issues.
James
Anthony Abby wrote:
> I'm having trouble connecting to a share I created on my Redhat 7.3 box,
> from my Windows XP workstation. I had set it up earlier on a FreeBSD
> 4.6 server and was able to connect to it from a Windows 2000
> workstation, but can not seem to get it right here at home.
>
> Here's my smb.conf file.....
>
> # Samba config file created using SWAT
> # from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1)
> # Date: 2002/09/20 19:25:46
>
> # Global parameters
> [global]
> workgroup = APLUSDATA
> netbios name = LAPTOP
> server string = laptop
> security = SHARE
> encrypt passwords = Yes
> name resolve order = host bcast
> local master = No
> lock dir = /tmp/samba
> guest account = anthony
>
> [share]
> comment = Samba Share
> path = /share
> read only = No
> guest ok = Yes
>
>
> I created a share in the root directory... /share, which right now is
> set to 0777.
>
> When I try to connect via //laptop/share or //192.168.1.100/share I get
> "The network path was not found". Checked the pertinent log files, but
> found nothing relevant there. Could someone point me in the right
> direction? Thanks for any help.
>
> Anthony
>
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