Don't worry about debconf's question, in the postinstall process eBox write its own configuration. If you are using a recent eBox version, please go to the 'Module Status' section and be sure that 'File Sharing' is enabled.
If it is enabled will be need to look more for other errors... Cheers, Jaavier El mar, 27-05-2008 a las 18:21 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > > Paul, thanks for your reply. I did as you advised and I can see now > why my setup isn't working - I probably didn't answer the LDAP > installer's questions properly when installing ebox-samba. Point is, I > really don't know what to answer, and I remember just hitting 'enter' > previously. > Obviously, that's not the way to go :-) > > So my next question is... How should LDAP be set up (ldap-auth-config > is asking me for an LDAP server URI, for example)? > I can't find anything about this in the Ebox manuals. > > Thanks again, > > Matthijs > > > > > "Paul Bartell" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 05/27/2008 05:34 PM > Please respond to > eBox users > <[email protected]> > > > > > To > "eBox users" > <[email protected]> > cc > > Subject > Re: [Ebox-user] > samba, adding > users - unix > account required? > > > > > > > > > you might try apt-get remove --purge ebox-samba (or whatever the > package name is) and reinstallng the samba module. IT seems like there > is a configuration problem with samba, and you just need a new > smb.conf. > > my 2 cents anyway. > > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:28 AM, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Javier, > > > > Thanks for your reply. I started out just as you described, but it > doesn't > > work. I get the error mentioned before. And no, the Unix account > didn't > > exist before I added the user in the Ebox webinterface. > > I've tried to connect to the user share from both an XP and an > Ubuntu 7.10 > > (8.04 has a broken smb client) machine, just by browsing the network > > neigborhood and clicking on the Ebox machine. A window then pops up, > asking > > for my username and password. When the correct credentials are > provided, > > access is denied. > > > > I tried some manual tweaking with the 'matthijs' user, running > 'smbpasswd - > > a matthijs' seems to work around the problem. However, the > groupshare is > > still inaccessible. Of course, this isn't the way to go. Any idea > what I'm > > doing wrong? > > > > > > > > > > > > Javier Uruen Val <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > 05/27/2008 04:46 PM > > > > Please respond to > > eBox users <[email protected]> > > To > > eBox users <[email protected]> > > cc > > Subject > > Re: [Ebox-user] samba, adding users - unix account required? > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > >> A question about adding users through the ebox webinterface - When > I add a > >> user through the webinterface and that user then tries to access > the samba > >> shares on the ebox server, permission is denied allthough the > provided > >> credentials are okay. When I look at /var/log/samba/[machinename], > there's > >> this error: > >> > >> [2008/05/27 13:59:07, 0] > passdb/pdb_get_set.c:pdb_get_group_sid(211) > >> pdb_get_group_sid: Failed to find Unix account for matthijs > >> > >> So, does this mean I have to add a Unix account for each user > manually? I > >> haven't seen a notice about this in the Ebox manual anywhere. > >> I'm using Ebox from the repositories on Ubuntu 8.04 server 64bit. > > > > > > Now, you only have to add the user in eBox, you don't need a Unix > account. > > > > make sure you add a user who doesn't exists with a unix account, i.e > matthjs > > is not your local user when you install ubuntu. > > > > how are you trying to connect to the user share? > > _______________________________________________ > > Ebox-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.warp.es/mailman/listinfo/ebox-user > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ebox-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.warp.es/mailman/listinfo/ebox-user > > > > > > -- > "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the > present controls the past." - 1984 > > Random quote of the week/month/whenever i get to updating it: "Don't > worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have > to ram it down their throats." > - Howard Aiken > _______________________________________________ > Ebox-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.warp.es/mailman/listinfo/ebox-user > > _______________________________________________ > Ebox-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.warp.es/mailman/listinfo/ebox-user _______________________________________________ Ebox-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.warp.es/mailman/listinfo/ebox-user
