[ILUG] Samba question.

[Patrick O'Connor]

You might need to make your unix username a samba user. From a terminal type
smb -a username.
Where "username" is the username you you wish to use to authenticate to the
samba share.
You will be prompted to give a password which does not need to be the same
as your unix username password.

Here's a snip of my smb.conf which might help as a reference:
#======================= Global Settings
=====================================
[global]
        smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
        load printers = yes
        idmap gid = 16777216-33554431
        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192
        wins server =
        domain master = yes
        interfaces = eth1
        encrypt passwords = yes
        winbind use default domain = no
        template shell = /bin/false
        wins support = yes
        use client driver = yes
        dns proxy = no
        netbios name = FileServer
        server string = FileServer
        idmap uid = 16777216-33554431
        local master = yes
        workgroup = OFFICE
        printcap name = /etc/printcap
        security = user
        utmp = yes
        preferred master = auto
        bind interfaces only = yes
        max log size = 50

[printers]
        printable = yes
        printing = cups
        print command = lpr -r -P%p -o raw %s
        printer admin = guest

[homes]
read only = no
browseable = no

[ftpsite]
        guest account = ftp
[website]
        create mask = 0755
        comment = Public Web Server Folder
        writeable = yes
        path = /var/www

[datastore]
        create mask = 0755
        writeable = yes
        path = /datastore


Patrick

On 07/10/06, David Gillen. <belial at redbrick.dcu.ie> wrote:
>
> I just recently setup a machine here with fairly barebones ubuntu and a
> large
> HDD. Plan to use it as general network storage on my predominately windows
> network.
>
> [data]
> path = /data/
> guest ok = yes
> case sensitive = no
> msdfs proxy = no
> invalid users =
> guest only = yes
>
> Is the block from my /etc/samba/smb.conf file, this was created via the
> KDE
> system settings interface. Now I can see the computer on my windows
> machines.
> However when I try to access it prompts for a login. Trying various user
> name
> and password variations of nothing at all, my own login to the unix box,
> even
> 'nobody' as the user name all fail.
>
> Googling so far isn't turning up anything useful, although I will
> continue,
> but maybe someone here knows exactly what is going on and how to resolve
> it.
>
> Dave.
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