Hello Rob and Andrew thanks for your comments, I have disabled the firewall and fixed up the guest account so now I am getting the IPC$ login prompt which indicates a password authentication problem. I have had a look at the smbpasswd file and it is different from the RH6.0 smbpasswd file. The RH7.3, file the two 32bit encrypted passwords are only shown as 32 x 's whereas the RH6.0 file shows a string of numbers in each field. This may be correct as the way the encrypted passwords are verified is calculated at login time I believe.
Thanks guys Regards Paul Parkyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fisher Family" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul Parkyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 4:16 PM Subject: RE: Samba Problems > I had similar problems and after much hair pulling realised that the problem > was simply my firewall settings. > > The easy way to check is to disable the firewall and try again. > > Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Parkyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, 8 June 2002 11:57 p.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Samba Problems > > Hello List, > > I am having some difficulty getting Samba configured, the main problem is > when I try to access a share on the Samba server from a windows box. Network > neighborhood shows the samba server but always comes up with network problem > when I try to access the server. > I can ping the Linux PC from windows and vice a versa. testparm on smb.conf > file shows OK. I can run smbclient on the Linux box and connect to a windows > box and transfer files ok. > I have smb.conf set to use encrypted passwords and have run the > mksmbpasswd.sh utility on the passwd file. > When I run nmblookup -L samba_server then I get an error message saying it > can't find an exceptions.tdb file. The file doesn't exist in the directory > the path is pointing to. > I have checked the shares listed in smb.conf many times to ensure they are > correct. > I am not using dns so have set the resolve order to[ lmhosts hosts wins > bcast] I have set up these files to include all the windows PC's > This is a new install of RH7.3 > I have another Linux PC running RH6,0 and I have no problems with Samba and > I have virtually copied the smb.conf file over to the RH7.3 PC. > > any help most appreciated. > Regards Paul Parkyn > > >
