Quoting Brendan Arthurs <brenarthilug at eircom.net>:
> I seem to have found myself in a bit of a dead end.
> I have a RedHat Linux 6.2 box running Samba 2.0.6-9 providing file and
> printer sharing to a Windows 2000 box. Up until yesterday, all was going
> fine. The shares were accessible and the machine could be browsed in
> Win2K.
> While playing around with printer settings, I inadvertently changed
> something, with the result that while shares can be accessed, printers
> cannot and whenever I try to view the Linux box in Win2K, I get an error
> telling me that the server is not configured for transactions.
>> Here is my current smb.conf file (I removed printers completely)
>> [global]
> security = SHARE
> encrypt passwords = Yes
> smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
> password level = 2
> username level = 2
>> [homes]
> read only = no
> create mask = 0750
>> Has anyone got any pointers as to what I'm doing wrong?
Sanity checking.....
1) Are both smbd and nmbd running?
2) Anything in the logfiles?
3) Can you access the home dirs from a non Win2K box? (Another Linux box?)
4) Create a share with public=yes and see if that works.
HTH,
Ronan
> Cheers,
>> Brendan Arthurs
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