On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 14:12, Santiago Cepas wrote: > Thanks for answering Scott. > > > Actually a better test would be: > > > > smbclient -L servername -N > > I tried that and got: > > [santi@unit21 santi]$ smbclient -L unit21 -N > Anonymous login successful > Domain=[CYBES4] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.3-5] > tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE > That's not good! You have verified that smbd and nmbd are running? Not sure that would cause that error but it is the first thing I would look for. Check it using system-config-services and make sure smb is actually started. (or you can run ps -eaf |grep mbd) You can also check this in swat. There needs to be smbd and nmbd running. > I have already added the user santi with SWAT. > > I found that if you did not run the smbpasswd -a username command that adding users via swat really does not work. Not sure if that was something in my environment or not. > > >From a windows box on your network try using the run command (from the > > start menu) and put \\ipaddressofsambaserver in the run command. I have > > found that this will work sometimes if the name of the server can not be > > resolved. > > Didn't work! > Might be because samba is not really running. > I'm using swat. It's cool. > It can make some of this easier. :) > Well, here is my smb.conf > > # cat /etc/samba/smb.conf > # Samba config file created using SWAT > # from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) > # Date: 2004/07/21 20:07:35 > > # Global parameters > [global] > workgroup = CYBES4 > server string = Samba Server > lanman auth = No Not sure why you have this lanman auth = No. may want to pull this out. > log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log > max log size = 50 > min protocol = NT1 > socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 > lm announce = No Also not sure why that is there. ^^^^ > preferred master = No > local master = No > domain master = No > dns proxy = No > idmap uid = 16777216-33554431 > idmap gid = 16777216-33554431 > valid users = santi > > [printers] > comment = All Printers > path = /var/spool/samba > printable = Yes > browseable = No > > [samba] > path = /home/santi/samba > read only = No > guest ok = Yes > > > I guess I'm having a permissions problem here. The only other thing you may want to add is a wins server entry if you have one on your LAN. If not then it should not be needed. > > -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? -- Lily Tomlin