[computers] Re: [Samba] XP Home and Samba problem

[Gary Dale]

You said, I believe, that you are running XP/Home. Are you logged on as 
borzo (and not Borzo, BORZO or some other variant)?

Also, take it back to just including the path, restart samba, and let us 
know the exact error message Windows gives you.


SG wrote:
> From [global] I have removed valid users
> At first in [MyFiles] I left only the path, which didn't work at all ( 
> I was presented with an error on XP ), here's what I'm left with:
>
> [MyFiles]
>       path = /home/samba/
>       force user = borzo
>       force group = borzo
>       create mask = 0644
>       directory mask = 755
>
> but this didn't change the situation, I am still presented by the 
> grayedout login prompt, and by the way the share is accessible through 
> samba locally, aswell as the XP shares.
> The share's permissions are set to 0777, user and group are set to 
> borzo and borzo is added and enabled with smbpasswd.
>
> thanks so far,
> SG
>
> Gary Dale pisze:
>> simo wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 18:02 +0200, SG wrote:
>>>  
>>>> Here's my smb.conf
>>>>
>>>> [global]
>>>>         workgroup = GINVEST
>>>>         netbios name = LINACER
>>>>         interfaces = ath0, eth0
>>>>         bind interfaces only = Yes
>>>>         null passwords = Yes
>>>>         passdb backend = tdbsam
>>>>         username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
>>>>         log level = 3
>>>>         log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>>>>         announce version = 5.0
>>>>         name resolve order = host wins bcast
>>>>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE 
>>>> SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>>>>         printcap name = CUPS
>>>>         os level = 32
>>>>         wins support = Yes
>>>>         invalid users = root
>>>>         valid users = borzo
>>>>     
>>> ----------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>> you really _don't_ want to put this in the global section, or the only
>>> user allowed is borzo everywhere, and guest connections will always be
>>> denied.
>>>
>>> [..]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Simo.
>>>   
>> Yes, but that probably isn't his problem as he also has borzo as the 
>> only valid user for his MyFiles share.
>>
>> My concern is that he has so much other unnecessary entries in his 
>> share definition. My advice to him would be to clear out all the 
>> unnecessary stuff until he can get a working share. Start with just 
>> the path and see if that works. If it doesn't then your problem lies 
>> elsewhere.
>>
>> What are the Unix directory permissions for the share? Try setting 
>> them to allow everyone read-write-execute access.
>>
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