On Tuesday 17 August 2004 09:51 am, Stephen K�hn wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 15:42, Dan Gordon wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > Well it has taken me about a year to get samba to the point where
> > two boxes can see each others shares. The problem is on box a i
> > can see the share on box b but cant mount it the error is bad
> > password. on box b i can see the share locally but cant mount it
> > error is bad password.
> >
> > On box b i can see the share on box a and can mount it. Also can
> > mount the share locally. Both boxes have been set up exacly the
> > same and am using samba 3.0.2a on both boxes. Have tried
> > linneighbourhood, smb4k (which dont work at all) and gnome samba
> > browser with the same results. The only diferences between these
> > two boxes is one has mandrake 10 CE and the other has mandrake 10
> > official.
> >
> > any ideas would be apreaciated.
> >
> > Oh and if you wondering why it took me a year to get this
> > far....well i could not have cared less untill today LOL.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dan Gordon
>
> Dunno why you're having such major probs with Samba; and sorry to
> say, have you RTFM? I can get Samba up and running in literally no
> time at all; either as a normal Windows sharing system or as a domain
> controller; using SWAT through Webmin and it's interface, or either
> by manually editing the /etc/samba/smb.conf - it truly isn't all that
> hard especially if you use SWAT.
>
> Why not post the /etc/samba/smb.conf and let someone looksee?
>
> (BTW, the Samba mailing list is a great place to bounce things around
> as well)
Found the problem, it seems that I had to log into kde as root go into
kcontrol and set the netbios name in the samba configuration section.
Now even smb4k works.
I will have a look at the samba mailing list though as I now have to get
a XP box to connect.
Thanks for the help guys.
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