Samba Installation Problem ???

[stevenriz]

I installed Samba 2.0.7 on Solaris 2.6 and configured it using the webmin utility. I configured it to our domain and now when I open up Windows Explorer, I can see the server but when I click on it, it constantly asks for a username and password. Anything I can check and try?

 

[AlexJhb]

Hi,
Anyone give you advice? I am new to Linux (red Hat 8) and Samba and am having the same problem.

Have a Samba book and a "Complete Reference" on Linux, which has some Samba in it but need to find an answer quick.

Seems like everybody on Christmas break.

 

[smah]

Do you mean that you can't access the shares with a valid Samba user and password - Have you created any Samba users?

Or do you mean that you don't want the password dialog to appear?

 

[AlexJhb]

Hi smah,

Managed to solve this. My problem was that it kept asking for guest login password, even though I specified security = share.
By browsing other threads I found one that indicated I had to create a "pcguest" user and then specify
guest account = pcguest

That worked.

I have been looking everywhere for an answer and have not found this in any of the books. So don't understand why it solved the problem if I was not using user level security. I thought share level security would allow almost anybody in. I had created a user in Linux and Samba and on the Win-XP station. All the same spelling, case and passwords.

Do you understand this?

Thanks for your response.

 

[stevenriz]

I am still having a lot of trouble. Have spent a lot of time trial and erroring this thing to death to no avail. We are running Samba 2.0.7 on Solaris 2.6 and each time I try to look at the shares that I created on Samba, I am prompted for a username and password and nothing works. I tried adding accounts to smbpasswd to no avail. The log.smb reads this and I can't find much info on it. Anyone know what could be going on?

[2003/01/14 15:17:08, 0] passdb/smbpassfile.c202)
get_trust_account_password: Malformed trust password file (wrong length - was 0, should be 45).
[2003/01/14 15:17:08, 0] passdb/smbpassfile.c294)
domain_client_validate: unable to read the machine account password for machine APPLICATION in domain OURDOMAIN.
#

 

[stevenriz]

We got it!!!! Didn't add the machine to the domain..... duh...

http://us2.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/DOMAIN_MEMBER.html

I did have to add the machine's netbios name first to ServerManager for Domains, then add it with this command...
./smbpasswd -j MYDOMAIN -r MYDOMAINCONTROLLER <enter>

Then started up the service and we were good to go!!

 

[bluegroper]

Always see also

http://au1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/Samba24Hc13.pdf