On Thursday 30 November 2006 00:14, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Michael Satterwhite wrote: > >> I'm trying to get Samba functioning on my home network. It worked fine > >> on Ubuntu - and I've saved the configuration file. Obviously I'm doing > >> something wrong here, but I don't see it. > >> > >> My smb.conf has the line WORKGROUP=SATTERWHITE > > > > You may want to run "testparm /etc/samba/smb.conf" > > > > Dumb idea - change "WORKGROUP=SATTERWHITE" to > > "workgroup = SATTERWHITE". It may not matter, but every example I > > have seen of Samba configurations has a space on each side of the = > > sign. I have run into cases before where missing spaces have caused > > problems in config files. > > From where I'm sitting, there are no dumb ideas (well, maybe typing > while standing on my head - but no one has gone that far) > > Didn't work, but I tried it. Thanks for the idea. > ---Michael I agree with Mikkel about spaces. Some applications are fussier than others - some want spaces, some don't, but samba uses them by default, so I'd keep them there. Just one more suggestion to try. Have you got 'security = user' or 'security = share' in your global section? Try the other one. If it makes any difference it would give a pointer to the problem. Anne
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