Samba on RH 6.2

[LearningFox]

I am trying to learn Linux. I have just set up an old P133 as a Linux command-line-only server. I just got Samba working but cannot access Swat via the LAN and I do not have Xwindows (right term? I mean no GUI) on the server. I have been messing arounf in smb.conf and can now browse a couple folders (oops! directories) but though I can see my home directory, I cannot access it. I get a password prompt and it will not accept my Linux password. I tried smbpasswd but I get this message:

getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (uid not number)
Failed to find entry for user kcollie.
Failed to change password entry for kcollie

I thought I had share level security configured but I cannot get past this password.

Also, I cannot see one directory that I thought I had set up in smb.conf.

I know I am rambling; can anyone point me to a good referrence. I looked at the man pages but found nothing to help. I have RH Linux Bible but it is a later release (7.1) and the directory locations seem a little different than 6.2.

Thanks for any response.

 

[bluegroper]

See

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

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[fluid11]

I don't use Swat, but I believe that it's run through inetd. Look for a swat line in the /etc/services file and make sure its not commented out (#). Make sure to restart inetd after any changes --> service inetd restart.

Did you restart the Samba service after each change to smb.conf?

service smb restart


ChrisP

 

[ag6969]

I'm not a Samba expert, try this first:

In smb.conf, put the following line in the GLOBAL section:

encrypt passwords = yes

Win98/NT use ecryption by default, Samba doesn't.

Make sure you've created a Samba user, and a Linux user.
Create the Linux user with the adduser command, then create a Samba user with the smbpasswd -a command. Make sure all passwords match. Then give it a try, of course after restarting inetd. One more thing, use the latest version of Samba if you're connecting with a Win XP client, I had problems where I couldn't even connect with XP until I upgraded to 2.2.7.

 

[LearningFox]

Thanks for the help. I am not 100% sure what I did but I got it working.

One thing I had to do was get the permissions right on the directories. I had not done this on the linux box prior to working with samba.