are you using samba from 8.1??? if so, go to the cooker and get the 2.2.2 rpms,, they are excellent and appear to be very stable, have loaded them on mine when they came out and not restarted since and all is fine..
the default setup, (just starting smb) will make your home directories available to whatever login you have.. will also share any cups printers on the box. then make your samba users, and make them the same as the username and passwords on your windows box's so if you have a windows box that you log into as username: markw and password markwpassword then use the: smbpasswd -a markw to create the user and enter its password.. when your windows box tries to connect to the samba shares, it will by default send the username and password that the windows box was logged in as. I had lots of problems until I got it worked out (by luck the first time), since then none of my installs has had any problems. so here is what I would do in your situation, (assuming I understand your situation.) 1. install 2.2.2 samba all packages, (you don't need all, but what the hell, they are small.) 2. smbpasswd -a for all users. 3. Doesn't hurt for all samba users to have the same username and password on the linux box. but you don't have to, you can map a smb user to a different linux user. but for the purposes of this, lets go with KISS and match the usernames and passwords. give that a shot and let me know how you go.. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Sunday, 16 December 2001 10:10 AM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 19:44:45 -0600 Julian Opificius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > I'm a little worried, as I said before, about the users mdw1982 and the > alexhome in the valid users list in the above definition. It would be > better if, until you got all this working, you didn't have account names > the same as machine names. I don't know if it's a problem, but it might be > better to simplify things till you're sure it's OK to do that. Try taking > out mdw1982 and alexhome account names. > Also, I'd take out the "write list = ". The fact that the key word is > there but has no arguments will probably make the share essentially read-only. > ok...I've redone the entire configuration. I'm beginning to think that there's something really simple that I'm overlooking cause when I attempt to map a drive in Network Neighborhood I get as far as making the connection where it asks for the password, but I'm not sure which password it's asking for cause I give it the password of the user thats trying to connect, user = markw passwd = casey81 and it doesn't like that one. i've even tried the Linux box's root passwd and _that_ doens't work either. the weird thing that got me going this direction was I opened the config file and commented out ALL of the global settings cause i wanted to see how things would react, then attempted to connect from the windows machine in a terminal. low and behold it asked for a password. But neither my son nor myself knew which one it was asking for. I'm going to take your advice and get rid of the other two users that mirror machine names. they're confusing the hell outa me. O, and BTW... I LOVE british humor. the dryer the better sometimes. -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:05pm up 5 days, 22:00, 3 users, load average: 0.31, 0.39, 0.37
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