Re: General Samba Question

Randy Kelsoe wrote:

Bradley (FC2 List) wrote:

I have been trying to set up my Samba service on a workgroup with 5 windows
2000 professional boxes
and 1 win 98 box. I can connect to the win 98 box and two of the 2000 boxes
with no problem. On the
other three boxes I get "The folder contents could not be displayed", "You
do not have the permissions
to view the contents of (Computer Name)". All of the windows machines are
showing up in
"Windows Network".

 Can someone give me some advice on where to look for the difference
between
these connections? I have not been able to figure this one out.

The user policy in Win98 is not as strict as Win 2000. First, did you create your users on the samba server ( smbpasswd -a username )? If you have the same samba user name as the user name you are logged in with on the Win2K machine, and the passwords are the same, it should work if you have a correct smb.conf file and in the smb.conf file, you have:

 encrypt passwords = yes

If this does not work after restarting smb (service smb restart), you might want to post your smb.conf file here (without the comments).

Apparently I have dug myself deeper becaust now in "Network" in "Computer" I get an endlessly rotating hour-glass. Sometimes I get an error about int key string system/smb/workgroup - sorry, can't remember it all and couldn't duplicate.

Here is my smb.conf:
[global]
   log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
   load printers = yes
   guest account = pcguest
   smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
   socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
   domain master = no
   hosts allow = 192.168.1. 127.
   winbind enable local accounts = no
   encrypt passwords = yes
   dns proxy = yes
   cups options = raw
   server string = Samba Server
   winbind enum users = no
   path = /mnt/share
   workgroup = THINGWORLD
   printcap name = /etc/printcap
   security = user
   preferred master = yes
   max log size = 50
   domain logons = yes

[homes]
  comment = Home Directories
  browseable = no
  writable = yes

[printers]
  comment = All Printers
  path = /var/spool/samba
  browseable = no
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
  guest ok = no
  writable = no
  printable = yes

[public]
comment = fedoramel shared drive
path = /mnt/share
public = yes
browseable = yes
writable = yes

Here are the results of testparm:
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
Processing section "[homes]"
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[public]"
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_BDC
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

[global]
       workgroup = THINGWORLD
       server string = Samba Server
       guest account = pcguest
       log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
       max log size = 50
       socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
       printcap name = /etc/printcap
       domain logons = Yes
       preferred master = Yes
       domain master = No
       winbind enum users = No
       path = /mnt/share
       hosts allow = 192.168.1., 127.
       cups options = raw

[homes]
       comment = Home Directories
       read only = No
       browseable = No

[printers]
       comment = All Printers
       path = /var/spool/samba
       printable = Yes
       browseable = No

[public]
       comment = fedoramel shared drive
       read only = No
       guest ok = Yes