[Samba] Win8 account sees its home share, but "does not have permissions to access"

Dale Schroeder dale at BriannasSaladDressing.com
Mon Jul 1 10:11:02 MDT 2013


Mark,

First verify that the posix permissions are good for your home 
directory: ls -lA /home/mark
If those are good, then I would try removing the hosts allow parameter 
in [global].
If that doesn't work, checking the Samba logs is always a good idea.

Dale

On 06/28/2013 6:03 PM, Mark Galeck wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a beginner to Samba and I RTFMd carefully but cannot get started.
>
> I want to access my user account "mark" home directory on Linux, with the
> same account name on Windows 8.
>
> The user "mark" has the same password on Linux and Windows 8.  In addition
> I did this on Linux
>
>> smbpasswd -a mark
> and gave the same password.
>
> Following the manuals on samba website I edited the samba configuration
> smb.conf file so:
>
> [global]
>          hosts allow = ALL
>          client signing = no
>          # log files split per-machine:
>          log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>          # maximum size of 50KB per log file, then rotate:
>          max log size = 50
>          security = user
>
> [homes]
>          valid users = %S
>          read only = No
>
>
> and successfully started the samba service.
>
> I can then see "mark" share on that Linux machine from Windows, I can map
> it to a drive letter in Windows Explorer, and I also see this:
>
> [root at v64-sw-dev003-mark /]# smbstatus
>
> Samba version 3.6.12-1.fc17
> PID     Username      Group         Machine
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 14678     mark          mark          mark-pc      (192.168.221.76)
>
> Service      pid     machine       Connected at
> -------------------------------------------------------
> mark         14678   mark-pc       Fri Jun 28 15:56:39 2013
>
> No locked files
>
>
>
> This all looks very good to me, as Samba server sees my client with the
> correct username, Windows machine name and IP address.
>
>
> YET, when I actually try to double-click on the share in the Windows
> Explorer, I get an error dialog:
>
>
> Windows cannot access \\192.168.221.32\mark
> You do not have permission to access \\192.168.221.32\mark\. Contact your
> network administrator to request access.
>
>
> 192.168.221.32 is the Linux machine address.
>
> Please, what am I doing wrong??
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mark




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