tlug: You mean I'm not the only Samba flunkie...

[Sean Bennett <sean@example.com>]

Yokatta!  there are others who haven't figured out Samba either (no offence) - and
I thought it was just because I'm a newbie....

I celebrated a small victory when I had first gotten my SambaServer to show up on
my W95's network neighborhood, only to be asked for a password for access.... '*a
password??*  I don't remember configuring any passwords...'

None of my unix passwords are correct.  Where do I look to track this down.  My
smbpasswd file was originally empty; I added NO PASSWORD (which I had gotten from
one of the samba web pages) to no avail...

currently I have security = user in my smb.conf file

Can anyone point me in the right road...

Thanks


Sean
sean@example.com

Roberto Tongu-R10027Y (by way of A.Tomita,Jr. ) wrote:

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>     : sstone@example.com@example.com at #EMAIL
>
> On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Jonathan Byrne--3Web wrote:
>
> > Having dug through piles of Samba documentation and examined samba.conf for
> > clues, I still find myself pretty far from enlightenment and just wanting to
> > do a few simple things that will bring my computer at work much closer to my
> > goal of being able to run it under Linux all the time and only occasionally
> > boot it into Windows.
> >
> > Those simple things are:
> >
> > 1) Make the computer visible as a node on our office LAN;
>
> Just make sure it's using the same workgroup name as the other machines,
> and that it's exporting something as 'browseable'.
>
> > 2) Make two of it's directories visible: public-upload (unrestricted
> > read-write) and public-download (unrestricted read, write only by me or
> > root) that are on my Windows 95 partition that is being mounted under Linux;
>
> this section from my smb.conf creates a public read/write share:
>
> [backup]
>         comment = Backup stuff
>         browseable = yes
>         read only = no
>         preserve case = yes
>         writable = yes
>         public = yes
>         path = /mnt/f/laptop
>
> If you wanted to make one that was writable only by 'jonathan' and 'root',
> change the 'writable' line to:
>
>      write list = jonathan, root
>
> > 3) Be able to use the printer which is attached to the NT server machine on
> > our LAN.
>
> Run printtool and say you want to set up an SMB printer.  Be warned,
> though, that SMB sometimes has problems with NT (I'm not 100% sure why) -
> let me know how it goes.
>
> PS - the printer stuff in smb.conf is if you want to *export* YOUR
> printers via smb to the network.  It works, too... I do it here, actually.
>
> BTW - there's probably a man page you overlooked - did you do a 'man
> smb.conf' ?  It describes the specifics of the configuration file.
>
> >
> > I've got the feeling that if I can do 1, then 2 and 3 will be easy, but I'm
> > not sure what I need to do to make it show up on our LAN.  The SMB daemon is
> > started at boot and is running, so I know that part is at least working, but
> > Samba is proving a bit challenging to figure out.  Can somebody who is
> > familiar with it point me to a doc file that will tell me clearly what I
> > need to do to accomplish these things, and/or tell me what I need to put in
> > samba.conf to make it do them?
> >
> > Of course, if a graphical front-end similar in function to the network
> > control panel in Windows is available for Samba, I'd be most interested in
> > knowing where to download it :-)
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> >
> >
> >
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