[Samba] Help a newbie (please!): Samba and WinXP in a non-PDC environment

[Bradley W. Langhorst]

On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 15:12, qk wrote:
> Hi all... looking for some assistance with my first Samba setup. 
> 
> The setup: On a small (five-computer, mixed Win2k and WinXP pro) LAN, I'd 
> like a share on my FreeBSD server to be available for storage. No printing, 
> no PDC, no individual user directories or password protection -- just a big 
> ol' slice of storage for everyone to access equally. 
> 
> I've come close, (the share shows up in the network neighborhood and even 
> asks for a login) but can't get it to work (no login seems to work). Any 
> advice? Even better: Anyone got a sample SMB.conf that I can steal from? 
> 
> The setup: FreeBSD 4.6 box with two drives. The second (and larger) drive is 
> mounted as /storage. Samba appears to launch correctly (the daemons are 
> running and the share shows up in the clients' network neighborhood). All 
> computers (including the Samba share, if I get it to work) will be part of 
> the WEST-THIRD group. 
> 
> I've tried SWAT. I've tried RTFM. I've Google'd around the 'net. All to no 
> avail. Any advice GREATLY appreciated! 
have you set up the smbpasswd file and added users to it?
what do the samba logs say?
if you still have trouble post your smb.conf file here.

brad
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Bradley W. Langhorst <brad at langhorst.com>