Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie question
Steve Logan wrote: After lurking for some years now it's time to come out of the closet... I've just set up my first serious Linux machine, a PIII 500 running SuSe Professional 9.1. Installation went OK and it's now up and running ready for me to play around with Apache/Tomcat (which is why I want it). Here's my question - I use WinXP for most of my development work and want an easy way of copying files to and from the SuSe box. I've correctly set up Samba client and server on the SuSe box, or at least I think I have. From the Suse box I can see my Win2003 network and copy files across. So that direction works fine. From my XP box I enter the IP address of the Suse box in 'My Computer' and I get back a list of things - 'groups', 'profiles', 'users' and 'Printers and Faxes'. When I click on, say, users I'm asked to login. Here's where my problem starts. I enter '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' as the 'User name' and enter my password (I have already set up an account on the SuSe box called steve and I can login fine at the Suse machine) but I'm not logged in. I've tried all sorts of permutations and combinations for the user name but I'm stumped. I presume I'm doing something daft. The suse box is called 'cactuslinux' and there is an account called 'steve'. Help!? Thanks Steve Ah, you dont need to use the machine name when you login. Also, as far as I know you need to add a samba user for the Windows box to authenticate against. Unfortunatly I cannot be more helpful than this - I haven't used samba in quite a while but i'm sure someone else will be able to help nps. Basically yes, your doing something daft but it's a common thing and one that actually stumped me for a while when I first started using samba :) ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie question
William Hamilton wrote: Steve Logan wrote: After lurking for some years now it's time to come out of the closet... I've just set up my first serious Linux machine, a PIII 500 running SuSe Professional 9.1. Installation went OK and it's now up and running ready for me to play around with Apache/Tomcat (which is why I want it). Here's my question - I use WinXP for most of my development work and want an easy way of copying files to and from the SuSe box. I've correctly set up Samba client and server on the SuSe box, or at least I think I have. From the Suse box I can see my Win2003 network and copy files across. So that direction works fine. From my XP box I enter the IP address of the Suse box in 'My Computer' and I get back a list of things - 'groups', 'profiles', 'users' and 'Printers and Faxes'. When I click on, say, users I'm asked to login. Here's where my problem starts. I enter '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' as the 'User name' and enter my password (I have already set up an account on the SuSe box called steve and I can login fine at the Suse machine) but I'm not logged in. I've tried all sorts of permutations and combinations for the user name but I'm stumped. I presume I'm doing something daft. The suse box is called 'cactuslinux' and there is an account called 'steve'. Help!? Thanks Steve Ah, you dont need to use the machine name when you login. Also, as far as I know you need to add a samba user for the Windows box to authenticate against. Unfortunatly I cannot be more helpful than this - I haven't used samba in quite a while but i'm sure someone else will be able to help nps. Basically yes, your doing something daft but it's a common thing and one that actually stumped me for a while when I first started using samba :) ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Time to stop lurking for me as well and maybe contribute, I had a similiar problem recently between Fedora and XP and all I done was edit my smb.cnf file to the windows workgroup and it worked fine but I also found that iptables was stopping incoming connections as well so it may be worth checking iptables or switching it off for the duration of testing if it is installed and running. Cheers Adam H ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie question
Unless you're doing cross-domain authentification magick, you don't need to use the machine name on your login, in either the [EMAIL PROTECTED], or domain\user format. As long as you have an account that Samba recognises, then you should be able to log in with just your username. Now, having an account that Samba recognises is another matter. Suse may have some spiffy scripts to synchronise the SMB database with the system database, or it may just leave you high and dry. You can add a user to the Samba database by running smbpasswd - `smbpasswd -a steve` - and then entering in an appropriate password. If the user already exists, then it will just change the password for that user. You also have to have an existing Linux user in the system database with the same username before you make a Samba user - which is why I'm surprised that Suse doesn't synchronise it all automagically for you. If that fails to work, or you've already tried that, send us the most recent logs (grep log file /etc/samba/smb.conf to find out where they're stored) and we can have a look at that. It could be that Windows has some security/encryption options enabled that is confusing Samba Kyle On Monday 05 September 2005 11:45, William Hamilton wrote: Steve Logan wrote: After lurking for some years now it's time to come out of the closet... I've just set up my first serious Linux machine, a PIII 500 running SuSe Professional 9.1. Installation went OK and it's now up and running ready for me to play around with Apache/Tomcat (which is why I want it). Here's my question - I use WinXP for most of my development work and want an easy way of copying files to and from the SuSe box. I've correctly set up Samba client and server on the SuSe box, or at least I think I have. From the Suse box I can see my Win2003 network and copy files across. So that direction works fine. From my XP box I enter the IP address of the Suse box in 'My Computer' and I get back a list of things - 'groups', 'profiles', 'users' and 'Printers and Faxes'. When I click on, say, users I'm asked to login. Here's where my problem starts. I enter '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' as the 'User name' and enter my password (I have already set up an account on the SuSe box called steve and I can login fine at the Suse machine) but I'm not logged in. I've tried all sorts of permutations and combinations for the user name but I'm stumped. I presume I'm doing something daft. The suse box is called 'cactuslinux' and there is an account called 'steve'. Help!? Thanks Steve Ah, you dont need to use the machine name when you login. Also, as far as I know you need to add a samba user for the Windows box to authenticate against. Unfortunatly I cannot be more helpful than this - I haven't used samba in quite a while but i'm sure someone else will be able to help nps. Basically yes, your doing something daft but it's a common thing and one that actually stumped me for a while when I first started using samba :) ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -- Kyle Gordon Systems Manager Absolute Studios http://www.absolutestudios.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie question
Other way to do it is to enable Swat (samba web administration tool) by going into /etc/xinetd.d/swat and changing disable to enable if required, and also allowing access to another network (or run mozilla locally). This gives you a nice interface (and help) for making configuration changes and also for adding users to the database. Should be preconfigured to look at the suse smb.conf on installation. Darren -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle Gordon Sent: 05 September 2005 12:13 To: scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie question Unless you're doing cross-domain authentification magick, you don't need to use the machine name on your login, in either the [EMAIL PROTECTED], or domain\user format. As long as you have an account that Samba recognises, then you should be able to log in with just your username. Now, having an account that Samba recognises is another matter. Suse may have some spiffy scripts to synchronise the SMB database with the system database, or it may just leave you high and dry. You can add a user to the Samba database by running smbpasswd - `smbpasswd -a steve` - and then entering in an appropriate password. If the user already exists, then it will just change the password for that user. You also have to have an existing Linux user in the system database with the same username before you make a Samba user - which is why I'm surprised that Suse doesn't synchronise it all automagically for you. If that fails to work, or you've already tried that, send us the most recent logs (grep log file /etc/samba/smb.conf to find out where they're stored) and we can have a look at that. It could be that Windows has some security/encryption options enabled that is confusing Samba Kyle On Monday 05 September 2005 11:45, William Hamilton wrote: Steve Logan wrote: After lurking for some years now it's time to come out of the closet... I've just set up my first serious Linux machine, a PIII 500 running SuSe Professional 9.1. Installation went OK and it's now up and running ready for me to play around with Apache/Tomcat (which is why I want it). Here's my question - I use WinXP for most of my development work and want an easy way of copying files to and from the SuSe box. I've correctly set up Samba client and server on the SuSe box, or at least I think I have. From the Suse box I can see my Win2003 network and copy files across. So that direction works fine. From my XP box I enter the IP address of the Suse box in 'My Computer' and I get back a list of things - 'groups', 'profiles', 'users' and 'Printers and Faxes'. When I click on, say, users I'm asked to login. Here's where my problem starts. I enter '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' as the 'User name' and enter my password (I have already set up an account on the SuSe box called steve and I can login fine at the Suse machine) but I'm not logged in. I've tried all sorts of permutations and combinations for the user name but I'm stumped. I presume I'm doing something daft. The suse box is called 'cactuslinux' and there is an account called 'steve'. Help!? Thanks Steve Ah, you dont need to use the machine name when you login. Also, as far as I know you need to add a samba user for the Windows box to authenticate against. Unfortunatly I cannot be more helpful than this - I haven't used samba in quite a while but i'm sure someone else will be able to help nps. Basically yes, your doing something daft but it's a common thing and one that actually stumped me for a while when I first started using samba :) ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -- Kyle Gordon Systems Manager Absolute Studios http://www.absolutestudios.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie question
I usually install 'putty' on windows machines. The pscp lets you copy stuff to Linux without using samba. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html -- Martin ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie question
s/are fast/have spent too much time unbreaking samba/ Kyle On Monday 05 Sep 2005 14:02, Steve Logan wrote: You chaps are fast! Thanks Kyle, I tried the smbpasswd -a steve and it all works fine now. I've got a user 'steve' with the same password on both Win and SuSe and, having done the smbpasswd thingy, I can get straight in from XP to Suse without doing anything. Hurray. Thanks again... Steve Kyle Gordon wrote: Unless you're doing cross-domain authentification magick, you don't need to use the machine name on your login, in either the [EMAIL PROTECTED], or domain\user format. As long as you have an account that Samba recognises, then you should be able to log in with just your username. Now, having an account that Samba recognises is another matter. Suse may have some spiffy scripts to synchronise the SMB database with the system database, or it may just leave you high and dry. You can add a user to the Samba database by running smbpasswd - `smbpasswd -a steve` - and then entering in an appropriate password. If the user already exists, then it will just change the password for that user. You also have to have an existing Linux user in the system database with the same username before you make a Samba user - which is why I'm surprised that Suse doesn't synchronise it all automagically for you. If that fails to work, or you've already tried that, send us the most recent logs (grep log file /etc/samba/smb.conf to find out where they're stored) and we can have a look at that. It could be that Windows has some security/encryption options enabled that is confusing Samba Kyle On Monday 05 September 2005 11:45, William Hamilton wrote: Steve Logan wrote: After lurking for some years now it's time to come out of the closet... I've just set up my first serious Linux machine, a PIII 500 running SuSe Professional 9.1. Installation went OK and it's now up and running ready for me to play around with Apache/Tomcat (which is why I want it). Here's my question - I use WinXP for most of my development work and want an easy way of copying files to and from the SuSe box. I've correctly set up Samba client and server on the SuSe box, or at least I think I have. From the Suse box I can see my Win2003 network and copy files across. So that direction works fine. From my XP box I enter the IP address of the Suse box in 'My Computer' and I get back a list of things - 'groups', 'profiles', 'users' and 'Printers and Faxes'. When I click on, say, users I'm asked to login. Here's where my problem starts. I enter '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' as the 'User name' and enter my password (I have already set up an account on the SuSe box called steve and I can login fine at the Suse machine) but I'm not logged in. I've tried all sorts of permutations and combinations for the user name but I'm stumped. I presume I'm doing something daft. The suse box is called 'cactuslinux' and there is an account called 'steve'. Help!? Thanks Steve Ah, you dont need to use the machine name when you login. Also, as far as I know you need to add a samba user for the Windows box to authenticate against. Unfortunatly I cannot be more helpful than this - I haven't used samba in quite a while but i'm sure someone else will be able to help nps. Basically yes, your doing something daft but it's a common thing and one that actually stumped me for a while when I first started using samba :) ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -- Kyle Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lodge.glasgownet.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
