some ideas.. 1. make sure the windows machines and the linux box have the same workgroup name.. in this caes MDKGROUP 2. Try it with the firewall off.. clear your iptables rules and eliminate the firewall as the cause. 3. add these to your [global] section of smb.conf (edited to suit) hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127.0.0.1 interfaces = eth0 They are a good security measure to limit access to local interface and IP's.... 4. try adding this to global as well.. so it wins master elections. os level = 99
even without windows users having matching users on the linux machine, the windows PC's should still be able to see the linux box..just not access it. hope that is of some help.. rgds Franki -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 3:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] samba On Monday 31 Mar 2003 8:32 pm, richard bown wrote: > Hi All > > , thanks Kwan & Torstein for the advice , but so far the windows machine > still cannot see this machine. > I have opened ports 137 & 139 on the firewall , I've altered the > smb.conf as suggested, included the chmod and chown foe the public dir, > but still nothing. > The modified smb.conf is as follows:- > [global] > workgroup = MDKGROUP > netbios name = FW-GB7TF > server string = Samba Server %v > encrypt passwords = Yes > log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m > max log size = 50 > socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 > printcap name = cups > domain logons = Yes > dns proxy = No > printer admin = @adm > printing = cups > security = share > [homes] > comment = Home Directories > read only = No > browseable = No > > [printers] > comment = All Printers > path = /var/spool/samba > create mask = 0700 > guest ok = Yes > printable = Yes > print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client > side printer drivers. > browseable = No > > [print$] > path = /var/lib/samba/printers > write list = @adm root > guest ok = Yes > > > The smbusers file as follows:- > > # Unix_name = SMB_name1 SMB_name2 ... > root = administrator admin > nobody = guest pcguest smbguest > > I'm still stumped, any more suggestions ?? It looks as though your windows users don't have accounts on your box? They need a user account, with password and username exactly matching their windows logon, and a samba user account, again with an exact match in username and password. I presume they also have MDKGROUP as their workgroup, remembering case sensitivity? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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