Samba

[David G. Miller]

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> I have a RH7.3 server set up and Samba works great. I access it from my
>> Windows XT machine via my network places.
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>> My challenge:
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>> I have set up Samba on FC5. Workgroup is supervisor (For some reason it
>> will not take caps for supervisor) Security authentication mode is User.
>> Encrypt passwords yes with no guest account. I set a user as Unix name
>> dps2300 windows username dps2300 samba password 12345678. I did do a
>> smbpasswd for dps2300 as 12345678 also...
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>> On the windows machine in my network places I can see Samba Server
>> (Fedora5). When I click on it, it shows me a list of directories available.
>> I click on it and it asks for user name and password I put in dps2300 and
>> 12345678 and it does not allow me in. States it is not accessible.
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>> I can click on my RH7.3 and get right in...
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>> Any ideas?
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>> Is there a check off list anyone knows of to set up Samba?
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Since you can "see" the shares but not access them, you're probably 
correct that the problem has something to do with authentication.  On 
your FC5 Samba server, check to see what's logged in /var/log/samba.  Is 
your server doing its own authentication or is there another box on the 
network that handles network authentications?  If your samba server 
handles its own authentication, make sure your user is in the 
/etc/samba/smbpasswd file.

I can't really think of any check list for setting up a samba server but 
the O'Reilly Samba book is pretty good for general information.  Another 
thing you can do is install and enable SWAT on the server (enable it 
through xinetd).  SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool) provides a nice 
GUI for most Samba admin tasks.

Cheers,
Dave