[Samba] Unable to map a network drive on my PC to a shared directory on my LINUX server.

[Michael Wood]

Removing samba-technical from cc list.

Hi Kenneth.  It looks like this is a problem with your windows PC.

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Michael Wood
On 21 Dec 2015 8:45 PM, "Kenneth Watanabe" <watana43 at unlv.nevada.edu> wrote:

> To samba technical support,
>
> I am still unable to map a network drive on my PC to my LINUX server using
> Samba. Below are the revised steps I have taken to get this to work.
>
>
> I installed samba on my Fedora LINUX server.
>
> Below is a copy of my /etc/samba/smb.conf file
>
>  [global]
>
>     workgroup = WORKGROUP
>
>     netbios name = SAMBA
>
>     server string = Samba Server Version %v
>
>        map to guest = Bad User
>
>        log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>
>        max log size = 50
>
>        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>
>        preferred master = No
>
>        local master = No
>
>        dns proxy = No
>
>        security = User
>
> [share]
>
>        path = /home/shared_data
>
>        valid users = kwatanabe
>
>        read only = No
>
>
>
> I typed the following command to ensure the smb.conf file had no errors
>
> root# testparm
>
> The testparm command completed successfully with no errors.
>
>
> Then I added a samba user via the following command:
>
> root# smbpasswd -a kwatanabe
>
>
> Then I restarted samba services with the following commands:
>
> root# service smb restart
>
> root# service nmb restart
>
> Note: I could not start the winbind service since it is only available on
> NT-servers.
>
>
> I created a directory in the /home directory
>
> # mkdir /home/shared_data
> # chmod 777 /home/shared_data
>
>
> From Windows Explorer on my PC, I clicked on the map network drive icon and
> entered "\\131.216.46.60\shared_data". The following message appeared for
> several minutes:
>
> Attempting to connect to \\131.216.46.60\shared_data
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
>
> Then the following error appeared.
>
> Windows cannot access \\131.216.46.60\shared_data
>
> [image: Inline image 3]
>
>
> When I click on the “Diagnose” button, the following error appears:
>
> “One or more network protocols are missing on this computer”
>
>
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Ken
>
>
> --
> Kenneth Watanabe
> University of Nevada
>