I had the same issue at first - took me a couple of days to make it work. Make sure you are using a samba-server package version 2.2.5 or later.
Windows XP does behaves different than Win2K as far a Samba is concerned. They added some sort of twisted handshake that looks like an error to earlier Samba versions. Details are explained somewhere in the Samba release notes.
The setup I have at my office is working fine with about half a dozen of XP clients on that Samba version. I am running this on a Mandrake Linux with V2.4.3-20mdk kernel.
My smb.conf file has the following entries:
[global] client code page = 437 netbios name = (name of the linux PC) encrypt passwords = Yes passwd chat = (leave the default here) passwd program = (leave the default here) unix password sync = Yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 os level = 0 security = user dns proxy = No hosts allow = 192.168.200. 127.0.0. restrict anonymous = True bind interfaces only = True interfaces = eth0
[tomm_share] path= (path to your share, i.e: /home/tomm/shared) writeable=Yes write list= tomm valid users= tomm user only = Yes force user = root dos filetime resolution=True
You might want to read the Samba documentation on the entries used above and play a little with the values. Some of the entries are probably not necessary.... also, you need create a Linux user (let's say 'tomm' - do not use root) for you to log into the linux box and then create a matching Samba user by using:
smbpasswd -a usr psw
Make sure that the usr and psw matches the one you use to log on linux or it will not work. Restart Samba by issuing a:
samba stop samba start
and you should be good to go... Carlos
Tomm Lorenzin wrote:
I have been bangin' on this for-f**king-EVER, searching for help until I'm GOOGLE-eyed. Lots o' suggestions available, but none seem to be the magic bullet. I can see my windoze shares on the RHL box (machine-name = "roundheels" - so-named 'cuz installation of RHL9 proceeded so smoothly and made itself visible on my home LAN semi-automagically. My previous unsatisfactory experience w/ RHL 7.1 on a pigdog box was experientially named "tarbaby")
This is a home peer-to-peer LAN - no domain or PDC involved. But, no matter
what suggestions I try, I can't see my Linux shares on the XpPro box despite
the fact that the Linux box (\\roundheels) shows up in my windoze "network
places." When I dbl-clk on it, I get:
"\\roundheels is not accessible. You might not have permissions to use this
network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to see if you
have network permissions. The network path was not found."
I have "contact"ed myself all over to no avail. <G> I have modified my smb.conf until it looks like the NY phone book. The linux shares are visible on the linux box. I can see my windoze shares on the linux box, so the issue is more-or-less moot as far as file-xfer goes, BUT... <grrrr!> I have had the assistance of countless experts and suggestions as to how to modify the smb.conf appropriately. I have even modified my WinRegistry. I have reached the conclusion that "windoze ain't done 'til Samba won't run."
Does anyone have Samba shares visible successfully in WinXPpro? What are you smoking? Can I have a hit?
Cheers! Tomm "naughty boy" Lorenzin Mooresville (Lake Norman), NC SkyTomm(a)1000plus.com
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