[Samba] Re: Samba and Windows XP: "foogroup is not accessible"

thomas Armstrong tarmstrong at gmail.com
Mon Jan 15 11:21:55 GMT 2007


Fixed.

Just a Windows ZoneAlarm issue...

On 1/15/07, thomas Armstrong <tarmstrong at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I've got Samba 3.0 on a Linux FC2 machine, and Windows XP on another machine.
>
> When trying to access from Windows to Linux through 'fooworkgroup', I
> get this error message:
> "foogroup is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this
> network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out
> if you have access permissions. The list of servers for this workgroup
> is currently not available."
>
> The '/etc/samba/smb.conf' on the Linux FC machine is:
> ------
> [global]
>         workgroup = foogroup
>         netbios name = pc01
>         server string = Samba Server at PC01
>         log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>         max log size = 50
>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>         printcap name = /etc/printcap
>         dns proxy = No
>         hosts allow = 192.168.2.
>         security = user
>
> [printers]
>         comment = All Printers
>         path = /var/spool/samba
>         printable = Yes
>         browseable = No
>
> [shared]
>         comment = shared
>         path = /home/john/shared
>         read only = No
>         public = Yes
>
> [tmp]
>    comment = Temporary file space
>    path = /tmp
>    read only = no
>    public = yes
> ----------
>
> It worked ok some weeks ago, but I reinstalled Windows XP and now it doesn't.
>
> Any suggestion?
>


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