[Samba] Samba woes with Linux/CentOS/VMWare/Windows
Mark Hull-Richter
mhull-richter at datallegro.com
Thu Apr 5 21:11:08 GMT 2007
I have been battling this one for about two weeks now and getting
nowhere. I even joined this list under another email id and for some
reason cannot post from there, so I will try again here:
I have two systems running CentOS 4.4 Plus (Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10 kernel)
as the host OS. On top of this I am running VMWare Workstation (at
work) and VMWare Server (at home), both with Windows XP as the guest OS
(SP2 at work, SP1 at home). Yesterday I finally got my work samba set
up so that the Windows guest can see and access the shares and printers
on the CentOS host. I imported the exact same smb.conf file to my home
box, changed ONLY the workgroup name and the IP addresses involved, and
the Windows guest cannot see the shares at all. (It can see the host,
but nothing on it.)
One difference, which I confess I do not understand, is that at work I
have successfully set the smbpasswd for the guest user, but at home I
get this error:
# smbpasswd mark
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Failed to find entry for user mark.
Failed to modify password entry for user mark
Here is my home smb.conf:
# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = MARKGROUP
server string = Samba Server
hosts allow = 192.168.230 192.168.108 69.234.24 127
printcap name = /etc/printcap
cups options = raw
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
password server = none
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
interfaces = 192.168.230.1/24 192.168.108.1/24
remote announce = 192.168.230.255 192.168.108.255
wins support = yes
dns proxy = no
idmap uid = 16777216-33554431
idmap gid = 16777216-33554431
template shell = /bin/false
winbind use default domain = no
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S
path = /home/%u
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
[tmp]
comment = Temporary file space
path = /tmp
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = yes
browseable = yes
Here is my smbusers file:
# Unix_name = SMB_name1 SMB_name2 ...
root = administrator admin
nobody = guest pcguest smbguest
mark = mark
The ONLY other difference is that winbindd goes down immediately after
startup at work, but it runs just fine at home - should I even be
running it?
What am I missing / not doing right?
Thanks.
Mark Hull-Richter Linux Kernel Engineer
(949) 680-3082 - Office (949) 680-3001 - Fax (949) 632-8403 -
Mobile
mhull-richter at datallegro.com <mailto:mhull-richter at datallegro.com>
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