[Samba] Initial configuration help

Bryan Brannigan bbrannigan at HancockLumber.com
Tue Jan 7 12:36:00 GMT 2003


First thing I notice is that your net use command doesn't point to any of
the shares you have configured, but this shouldn't give you password
problems, just an error.  What happens if you run "net view
\\yourservername" ?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tufkal [mailto:tufkal at softhome.net]
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 6:02 PM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] Initial configuration help
> 
> 
> I have my Linux box setup net_masq (internet connection sharing) for a
> windows XP PC.  I am using Mandrake 9.0.
> 
> I installed all the necessary RPMs for SAMBA and ran the 
> wizard in SWAT
> for the default setup.
> 
> I then made a user 'tufkal'
> 
> using smbclient i am able to log in to my home dir share.
> 
> But I cant get anything at all on the windows box.
> 
> net use z: \\hostnameofmyserver\tufkal
> 
> gets a prompt, but no suitable username/pass is accepted
> 
> browsing workgroup computers shows the samba server but nothing inside
> it but errors
> 
> 
> Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.7]
> 
> Sharename      Type    Comment 
> ---------------------------------------- 
> homes          Disk    Home Directories 
> print$         Disk 
> pdf-generator  Printer PDF Generator (only valid users) 
> IPC$           IPC     IPC Service (Samba Server 2.2.7) 
> ADMIN$         Disk    IPC Service (Samba Server 2.2.7) 
>  
> Server               Comment 
> ---------            ------- 
> TUFKAL               Samba Server 2.2.7 
>  
> Workgroup            Master 
> ---------            ------- 
> WORKGROUP             
>   
> 
> 
> 
> # Samba config file created using SWAT 
> # from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 
> # Date: 2003/01/06 16:24:07 
>  
> # Global parameters 
> [global] 
> 	server string = Samba Server %v 
> 	encrypt passwords = Yes 
> 	log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m 
> 	max log size = 50 
> 	socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 
> 	printcap name = lpstat 
> 	dns proxy = No 
> 	printing = cups 
>  
> [homes] 
> 	comment = Home Directories 
> 	read only = No 
>  
> [printers] 
> 	comment = All Printers 
> 	path = /var/spool/samba 
> 	create mask = 0700 
> 	guest ok = Yes 
> 	printable = Yes 
> 	print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r   # using 
> client side
> printer drivers. 
> 	browseable = No 
>  
> [print$] 
> 	path = /var/lib/samba/printers 
> 	write list = @adm root 
>  
> [pdf-generator] 
> 	comment = PDF Generator (only valid users) 
> 	path = /var/tmp 
> 	printable = Yes 
> 	print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf %s ~%u
> \\\\\\\\%L\\\\%u %m %I & 
>  
>  
> Any ideas?
> 
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