Re: [Samba] Mac OS X user having problems connecting to samba running on Ubuntu Server
Thanks for sharing your own resolution. --- *Santiago DIEZ Directeur **Portable: +33 6 37 90 81 98 Bureau: +33 9 70 44 77 87* *32 boulevard de Strasbourg, 75010 Paris* On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Amit More am...@xetus.com wrote: Hi all, Doing a bit of research on samba and hostname lead me to find the actual cause of the problem. If you don't specify the netbios name = directive in the samba configuration(smb.conf) file, samba uses hostname as the netbios name (ref: http://www.justlinux.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-126124.html read cowanrl's comment) and the maximum length of a netbios name is 16 characters. However, Microsoft limits the netbios name to 15 characters (ref: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/163409). In my case i had not specified the netbios name = directive in smb.conf file and the hostname was more than 16 characters. Adding netbios name = to something less than 15 characters did the trick. My hostname is more than 16 characters. Hope this helps some of you out there. Thanks, Amit More On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 18:16 -0700, Amit More wrote: Hello all, After spending some time looking into the problem, I have found out that changing the hostname of the machine on which samba was running to be 16(or less) characters long did the trick. With internalfileserver(which is 18 characters long) as hostname Mac users were not able to connect to the share via connect to server(apple + k) application but could connect via the command line. Changing the hostname to fileserver(which is 10 characters long) allowed Mac users to connect to the share via connect to server application as well as via the command line. I am not able to figure this out. I will share it with samba users once i find something useful. Thanks, Amit More On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 18:51 -0700, Amit More wrote: Hello all, I have installed samba version 3.3.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 server 32-bit following the documentation https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/samba-fileserver.html Windows and Ubuntu users can see and mount the shares with no problem at all. Mac OS 10.6.x users can connect to samba from terminal using smbclient, but they are refused connection when they try to connect via finder (ie using apple + k). The error Mac users get is “wrong username or password”. However, they can connect via finder only when they prefix the username with any domain name. They can pass any arbitrary domain name before the username to connect to the samba share. To be more clear here is an example smb://server.domain.com/File_share username: arbitrary-domain-name\username Also, Mac OS X users having problem connecting to samba running on Ubuntu server are able to mount the shares from Windows Server 2003 via finder. I have set the following parameters in my /etc/samba/smb.conf file workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu) dns proxy = no security = user encrypt passwords = true passdb backend = tdbsam obey pam restrictions = yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s* \spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . map to guest = bad user usershare allow guests = yes [share] comment = Ubuntu File Server Share path = /srv/samba/share browsable = yes guest ok = no read only = no create mask = 0755 Things that I have tried: 1. Adding public = yes in share 2. Setting encryption = false I am new to samba and have been doing research for a long time to get this working. Is there any workaround for the problem that I am facing. I would appreciate all your help. Thanks in advance, Amit More -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Mac OS X user having problems connecting to samba running on Ubuntu Server
Hi all, Doing a bit of research on samba and hostname lead me to find the actual cause of the problem. If you don't specify the netbios name = directive in the samba configuration(smb.conf) file, samba uses hostname as the netbios name (ref: http://www.justlinux.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-126124.html read cowanrl's comment) and the maximum length of a netbios name is 16 characters. However, Microsoft limits the netbios name to 15 characters (ref: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/163409). In my case i had not specified the netbios name = directive in smb.conf file and the hostname was more than 16 characters. Adding netbios name = to something less than 15 characters did the trick. My hostname is more than 16 characters. Hope this helps some of you out there. Thanks, Amit More On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 18:16 -0700, Amit More wrote: Hello all, After spending some time looking into the problem, I have found out that changing the hostname of the machine on which samba was running to be 16(or less) characters long did the trick. With internalfileserver(which is 18 characters long) as hostname Mac users were not able to connect to the share via connect to server(apple + k) application but could connect via the command line. Changing the hostname to fileserver(which is 10 characters long) allowed Mac users to connect to the share via connect to server application as well as via the command line. I am not able to figure this out. I will share it with samba users once i find something useful. Thanks, Amit More On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 18:51 -0700, Amit More wrote: Hello all, I have installed samba version 3.3.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 server 32-bit following the documentation https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/samba-fileserver.html Windows and Ubuntu users can see and mount the shares with no problem at all. Mac OS 10.6.x users can connect to samba from terminal using smbclient, but they are refused connection when they try to connect via finder (ie using apple + k). The error Mac users get is “wrong username or password”. However, they can connect via finder only when they prefix the username with any domain name. They can pass any arbitrary domain name before the username to connect to the samba share. To be more clear here is an example smb://server.domain.com/File_share username: arbitrary-domain-name\username Also, Mac OS X users having problem connecting to samba running on Ubuntu server are able to mount the shares from Windows Server 2003 via finder. I have set the following parameters in my /etc/samba/smb.conf file workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu) dns proxy = no security = user encrypt passwords = true passdb backend = tdbsam obey pam restrictions = yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s* \spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . map to guest = bad user usershare allow guests = yes [share] comment = Ubuntu File Server Share path = /srv/samba/share browsable = yes guest ok = no read only = no create mask = 0755 Things that I have tried: 1. Adding public = yes in share 2. Setting encryption = false I am new to samba and have been doing research for a long time to get this working. Is there any workaround for the problem that I am facing. I would appreciate all your help. Thanks in advance, Amit More -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Mac OS X user having problems connecting to samba running on Ubuntu Server
Hello all, After spending some time looking into the problem, I have found out that changing the hostname of the machine on which samba was running to be 16(or less) characters long did the trick. With internalfileserver(which is 18 characters long) as hostname Mac users were not able to connect to the share via connect to server(apple + k) application but could connect via the command line. Changing the hostname to fileserver(which is 10 characters long) allowed Mac users to connect to the share via connect to server application as well as via the command line. I am not able to figure this out. I will share it with samba users once i find something useful. Thanks, Amit More On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 18:51 -0700, Amit More wrote: Hello all, I have installed samba version 3.3.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 server 32-bit following the documentation https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/samba-fileserver.html Windows and Ubuntu users can see and mount the shares with no problem at all. Mac OS 10.6.x users can connect to samba from terminal using smbclient, but they are refused connection when they try to connect via finder (ie using apple + k). The error Mac users get is “wrong username or password”. However, they can connect via finder only when they prefix the username with any domain name. They can pass any arbitrary domain name before the username to connect to the samba share. To be more clear here is an example smb://server.domain.com/File_share username: arbitrary-domain-name\username Also, Mac OS X users having problem connecting to samba running on Ubuntu server are able to mount the shares from Windows Server 2003 via finder. I have set the following parameters in my /etc/samba/smb.conf file workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu) dns proxy = no security = user encrypt passwords = true passdb backend = tdbsam obey pam restrictions = yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s* \spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . map to guest = bad user usershare allow guests = yes [share] comment = Ubuntu File Server Share path = /srv/samba/share browsable = yes guest ok = no read only = no create mask = 0755 Things that I have tried: 1. Adding public = yes in share 2. Setting encryption = false I am new to samba and have been doing research for a long time to get this working. Is there any workaround for the problem that I am facing. I would appreciate all your help. Thanks in advance, Amit More -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
[Samba] Mac OS X user having problems connecting to samba running on Ubuntu Server
Hello all, I have installed samba version 3.3.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 server 32-bit following the documentation https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/samba-fileserver.html Windows and Ubuntu users can see and mount the shares with no problem at all. Mac OS 10.6.x users can connect to samba from terminal using smbclient, but they are refused connection when they try to connect via finder (ie using apple + k). The error Mac users get is “wrong username or password”. However, they can connect via finder only when they prefix the username with any domain name. They can pass any arbitrary domain name before the username to connect to the samba share. To be more clear here is an example smb://server.domain.com/File_share username: arbitrary-domain-name\username Also, Mac OS X users having problem connecting to samba running on Ubuntu server are able to mount the shares from Windows Server 2003 via finder. I have set the following parameters in my /etc/samba/smb.conf file workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu) dns proxy = no security = user encrypt passwords = true passdb backend = tdbsam obey pam restrictions = yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s* \spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . map to guest = bad user usershare allow guests = yes [share] comment = Ubuntu File Server Share path = /srv/samba/share browsable = yes guest ok = no read only = no create mask = 0755 Things that I have tried: 1. Adding public = yes in share 2. Setting encryption = false I am new to samba and have been doing research for a long time to get this working. Is there any workaround for the problem that I am facing. I would appreciate all your help. Thanks in advance, Amit More -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
