samba help plz

[pranesh11]

I am configuring samba on redhat 8.0, i hv edited smb.conf and given samba workgroup name as sambauser then shared /home and valid users as %S ands hosts allow 172.16.1. 172.16.2. 172.16.3 172.16.4. 172.16.5. ( i hv lan with 172.16.... series )then started smb and nmb daemons , then i rebooted my windows and logged in to windows domain and when i click on entire network it is showing sambauser and when i double click on it it says sambauser is not accessible, you might not hv permission to use this n/w resource contact administrator of this server to findout if u hv access permission The n/w path was not found ... what could be the prob?? i hv added my user name in smbpasswd file and given same passwd of my windows passwd. when i give smbclient -L localhost it is giving the following o/p


Anonymous login successful
Domain=[SAMBAUSER] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.5]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
\home Disk
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba Server)
ADMIN$ Disk IPC Service (Samba Server)

Server Comment
--------- -------
ITSERVICES Samba Server

Workgroup Master
--------- -------
SAMBAUSER ITSERVICES

what shd i do to make samba accessible from my windows... plz advice.. 1yr back also we had same prob then we solved i don't remember.. how to resolve this.. plz help

 

[manarth]

when windows connects to a samba share, it tries to authenticate using the user ID / pwd of whoever is logged in.

You need to ensure that anyone trying to login to the samba server maps to a guest user. This is done by adding a line under the Global settings:
[tt]
[Global]
map to guest = bad user
[/tt]
This means that if the windows user ID doesn't exist in the samba user file, it will map that login to a guest login instead.

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[RhythmAce]

You could also make sure user/password exist on both win and linux or you can add &quot;security = share&quot; to your globals and you shouldn't be prompted for a password.

 

[pranesh11]

Hi
I did both that is updating security to share and map to guest = bad user, also i hv same username and password on linux/ windows.. on my linux ipchain was running i have stopped it but still same prob..

 

[manarth]

try

map to guest = bad password

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[pranesh11]

yep i did, no luck... same prob, when i checked ipchai and ip6 was running i disabled it.. can anything else be blocking?? how do i proceed or any soln for this plz

 

[wbstrider]

two things that stopped me.

1) My firewall prevented access. I forgot to allow the communication between the linux and windows box.

2) smbpasswd -a &quot;username&quot; for each user and then restart the 'SMB' service or reboot (?)

Good Luck



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[stanhubble]

since your ITSERVICES machine is in the SAMBAUSER workgroup not your windows domain, you may need to create a user map.
in the smbusers file:

linuxusername = \domain\windowsusername

you may also need to tell it where your wins server is.

 

[pranesh11]

Hi Experts,

Thanks for all your help and advice, i reinstalled my linux box by choosing no firewall option, now its working well.. thanks again for all the help.