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

[david rankin]

You do, of course, have valid smb accounts and passwords created on borzo 
for each XP client where the XP account (username) and the XP account 
(password) are identical and match the Linux user account (username) and the 
smb (password) created with the "smbpasswd -a" command, right?

Yes, I know that is not a "strict" requirement, but unless you're doing UID 
and GID mapping, it never hurts!

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "SG" <semgeb at wp.pl>
Cc: "samba" <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 6:30 AM
Subject: Re: [computers] Re: [Samba] XP Home and Samba problem


> 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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