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

[SG]

Problem resolved!, I created a XP user test123 with a null password, 
logged in and everything worked fine then I logged back to borzo and
everything went back to normal.

I must say this is the weirdest case i ever had and i stll don't 
understand what happened.

Anyway, thanks for all the help :)
SG


SG pisze:
> I Tried XP restarts, and tried removing hosts allow/deny, and I still 
> have the same problem, enforced guest login.
> I am starting to wonder if this might be somehow related to the fact 
> that I changed the XP's name, except that it shouldn't
> be a problem as I see the new XP name and shares correctly from Linux.
>
> I Will try to add a new user to XP and add that to samba, login with 
> the new user and see if it works then.
>
>
> Gary Dale pisze:
>> You should also try removing your global hosts allow and hosts deny 
>> lines. If they aren't done properly, they can cause you to be unable 
>> to connect.
>>
>>
>> Gary Dale wrote:
>>> Is your borzo password on Unix the same as your borzo password on 
>>> Windows? And have you tried rebooting your Windows box between 
>>> attempts to connect?
>>>
>>>
>>> SG wrote:
>>>> After a couple of minutes of inactivity I tried to access the samba 
>>>> share again and I got the error message I wrote about previously:
>>>>
>>>> * Error Message: /xxxxx/ 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 permission * .
>>>>
>>>> The share is accessible locally and so is the XP share from Linux.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Gary Dale pisze:
>>>>> 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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