Re: samba trouble

2014-09-08 Thread Nathan England
HI Derek, Well, sorry you didn't get my other email that night. You have samba binding to interface 127.0.0.1 instead of a public network ip. Look at your config line interfaces = 127.0.0.1/8 On Saturday, September 06, 2014 06:13:24 PM Derek Trotter wrote: sudo service smbd stop didn't

samba trouble

2014-09-06 Thread Derek Trotter
A few days ago I was given a computer. I decided to try using samba to move data from one to the other. I installed samba but couldn't get it to work. I've googled this and found many people having problems with samba, but none with the problem I'm having. Please help and thanks to anyone

Re: samba trouble

2014-09-06 Thread Nathan England
First thought is firewalls. Have you tried disabling iptables on either machine? That is usually my first thought. On Saturday, September 06, 2014 03:01:07 AM Derek Trotter wrote: A few days ago I was given a computer. I decided to try using samba to move data from one to the other. I

Re: samba trouble

2014-09-06 Thread Derek Trotter
It's not installed on either one. However I did find the problem of why nothing was being shared. It worked after I added valid users = username to the shares. The options to /etc/init.d/samba that I mentioned earlier still aren't working, but thankfully samba does start when I boot the

Re: samba trouble

2014-09-06 Thread techlists
I am by no means an expert. I was looking at your command : sudo /etc/init.d/samba stop and was wondering if you should be using samba. Have you tried : sudo service smbd stop ? On 2014-09-06 05:01, Derek Trotter wrote: A few days ago I was given a computer. I decided to try using

Re: samba trouble

2014-09-06 Thread Stephen Partington
I was about to say you don't have any users allowed or created. On Sep 6, 2014 3:25 AM, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.com wrote: It's not installed on either one. However I did find the problem of why nothing was being shared. It worked after I added valid users = username to the

Re: samba trouble

2014-09-06 Thread Derek Trotter
sudo service smbd stop didn't work. For now I'm giving up on it. I already have ssh installed on one machine. I'll install it on the other and use sftp to move data between them. Thanks for the input. On 09/06/2014 07:36 AM, techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: I am by no means an expert. I