Eric Diamond wrote:
Hate to tell you this, but this feels like a case of
trying too hard. I've been using Samba since very early
in the 2.x series and have never had problems like this.
Most of the default settings work just fine on most
networks. You may have managed to tweak a little too
much.
Please post your current smb.conf and 'ls -al' listings
of the parent directories of the directories you're
trying to share. Also, your smbpasswd file. I'll be glad
to see what I can find.
One thing that came to mind just now. In order for samba
to work correctly, smb user IDs and passwords must have
matching linux IDs and passwords. SMB network visibility
to the resources you're sharing is controlled by samba,
but directory and file access is handled by PAM.
If you have users that exist in the smbpasswd file that
don't exist in the linux passwd file then you have only
half the security context defined. That could lead to
the kind of messages you've posted above.
HTH!
BTW, Great quote!
Eric Diamond
eDiamond Networking & Security
303-246-9555
eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx
You are probably right, I am probably trying too hard. So tonoght, been reading about Jakarta Struts. And I also calmed down by the way :-). And yes I probalby tweaked too much because I swear it worked before.
So for I guess the third time, and with a different look each time here is the smb.conf file
[global]
workgroup = localdomain
server string = samba server
hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127.
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
local master = no
os level = 20
domain master = no
preferred master = no
password server = None
security = USER
dns proxy = no
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writeable = yes
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
printable = yes
[var]
hosts allow = 192.168.0.176 192.168.0.177 192.168.0.141 127.
writeable = yes
path = /var
[opt]
hosts allow = 192.168.0.176 192.168.0.177 192.168.0.141 127.
writeable = yes
path = /opt
[marst]
hosts allow = 192.168.0.176 192.168.0.177 192.168.0.141 127.
comment = root directory
path = /home
writeable = yes
-------------
Directories
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drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Feb 5 00:52 var
drwxrwx--x 3 root root 4096 Feb 5 00:51 opt
drwx------ 17 marst marst 4096 Mar 11 16:11 marst
Now here I can see the problem with opt. But again, I used to be able to map the directories (you know, right click on My Computer, bla bla bla...) and if providing wrong password when trying to access then I was refused access. But the problem is it just won't find the path.
And what else did you want... oh yeah the smbpasswd file.
marst:500:9FA7E5D1DAF48641C2265B23734E0DAC:24F68DFDE2497774D95E278567267B0D:[U ]:LCT-4051000B:
mastg7:501:234D029F23BE01ED7CA65F36030673DD:B8AAAC6FC9707554D67EBC56D97A69BD:[U ]:LCT-4050F4C1:
Have fun!!
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