[Samba] Samba basics

[David Rankin]

Here are some basic suggestions:

Make sure the user has read/write pemissions to use the directory. That is
he is either the OWNER of the directory or the member of a GROUP that has
access to the directory. Presuming you used useradd to create the user and
directory, this shouldn't be an issue. ls -al /home/(user) to confirm. chown
and chmod as required.

Make sure he has:
(1) a username and password on the unix box;
(2) the SAME samba username and password created with smbpasswd -a
(3) the SAME windows username and password
(4) that the winders box is using the client for microsoft networks for
login

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Austin, Ben" <ben.austin at capgemini.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 7:05 AM
Subject: [Samba] Samba basics


>
> Hi,
>
> I know little to nothing about samba so need some advice on a problem I'm
> having.
>
> One of my users is trying to mount a UNIX directory onto his PC and gets
the
> error "not authorised from this station". He was able to do this until he
> had his hard drive swapped out. Desktop have said they all settings are as
> they were previously and that this is a UNIX issue. Other users on the
same
> network are not having this problem and the user in question can mount the
> directory from another PC which would suggest this is a problem with that
> specific PC.
>
> I have checked that all relevant smb/nmb procs are running and there are
no
> errors in the logs. I can ping/traceroute to the PC and the PC can ping
the
> UNIX box. I believe this is a local PC issue and wondered if anyone could
> help me determine this as the problem is flying back and forwards between
> UNIX and Desktop and the user is starting to get p$£%d
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Ben
>
>
>
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