[Samba] Can't login from my PC.

Mark Adams mark at campbell-lange.net
Wed Nov 28 17:02:02 GMT 2007


Have you set a samba password with smbpasswd -a username ?

Also note you can only ever authenticate as 1 user per server as far  
as I am aware.

Mark.


On 28 Nov 2007, at 16:07, "Joseph C. Fisher" <jxfish2 at tampabay.rr.com>  
wrote:

> Please help.
>
> I'm not new to Linux or Unix, but I am new to Samba and PAM.
>
> A few weeks ago, I upgraded to SuSE Linux 10.3.
>
> I attempted to install and configure Samba last weekend, for the  
> first time.
>
> I want to create 3 specific mount points under Samba, each with  
> different
> permissions as to who can access them.
>
> Initially, I was able to mount the filesystem with the least amount of
> restrictions, but could not seem to mount the other two filesystems.
>
> I found several different documents on-line to aid in configuring the
> smb.conf file.
>
> After playing around for several days, I now can no longer mount any  
> of the
> three filesystems.
>
> Currently, when I bring up my Windows Explorer session, I can see the
> Workgroup, and the Samba server, but I can not see any of the mount  
> points
> on that server.
>
> When I click on the server (Samba 3.0.26a-3-1478-SUSE-SL10.3  
> (Jflinuxpc), I
> get the following error:
>
>    #####################################
>
>    \\Jflinuxpc 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.
>
>    There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon
> request.
>
>    #####################################
>
> When I click on "Map Network Drive" and type in "\\Jflinuxpc 
> \family_photos",
> I get the following error message:
>
>    #####################################
>
>    The mapped network drive could not be created because the  
> following error
> has occurred:
>
>    There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon
> request.
>
>    #####################################
>
> To start, it appears as if I've activated some type of special logon  
> server
> un-knowingly...
>
> Can anyone give me a hint as to what it might be?
>
> I can telnet to the Linux server just fine from all of my laptops  
> and PCs.
>
> The login ID that I'm using is good from a Linux / Unix / OS  
> perspective.
>
> Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance, and have a great week.
>
> JoeF...
>
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