Samba Guru...

[bruce]

-----Original Message-----
From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 8:23 AM
To: bedouglas at earthlink.net; For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Samba Guru...


On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 07:36 -0700, bruce wrote:

> questions:
>  -if i'm logged in on the Windows box, do i have to have the same
"username"
> on the linux box?
>  -does the samba app/share have to "reside" under the "doamin/workgroup"
of
> the windows box?

It makes things much more transparent if you do both of those.
Otherwise you'll get a login/password popup every time you
try to connect.  You also need to point samba at your domain
controller as a password server if you have one or
make a local windows-acceptable password with
smbpasswd -a username
on the Linux server.

--
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com


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ok....

update.

it appears that i can now see the linux "share/folder" in the windows
network. i can in fact copy a file to the linux folder on the linux box, see
the file on the windows box, and copy the file to another folder on the
windows box...

however, when i try to copy a windows file and place it in the samba share
on the windows side, i get an "access denied" message... i never get
prompted for a user/passwd...

thoughts/comments..

-bruce

my smb.conf is
#======================= Global Settings
=====================================
[global]

# workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name
        workgroup = Mesa

# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field
        server string = Samba1 Server

# This option is important for security. It allows you to restrict
# connections to machines which are on your local network. The
# following example restricts access to two C class networks and
# the "loopback" interface. For more examples of the syntax see
# the smb.conf man page
;   hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.2. 127.

# if you want to automatically load your printer list rather
# than setting them up individually then you'll need this
        printcap name = /etc/printcap
        load printers = yes

# It should not be necessary to spell out the print system type unless
# yours is non-standard. Currently supported print systems include:
# bsd, sysv, plp, lprng, aix, hpux, qnx
;   printing = cups

# This option tells cups that the data has already been rasterized
        cups options = raw

# Uncomment this if you want a guest account, you must add this to
/etc/passwd
# otherwise the user "nobody" is used
;  guest account = pcguest

# this tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine
# that connects
        log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
# all log information in one file
#   log file = /var/log/samba/smbd.log

# Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb).
        max log size = 50

# Security mode. Most people will want user level security. See
# security_level.txt for details.
# Use password server option only with security = server
;   password server = <NT-Server-Name>
# bdouglas.. not sure if needed...
security = SHARE

# You may wish to use password encryption. Please read
# ENCRYPTION.txt, Win95.txt and WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation.
# Do not enable this option unless you have read those documents
  encrypt passwords = yes
  smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd

[windows]
        path = /windows
        writeable = yes
        guest ok = yes

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left out alot of things i didn't change...