Trouble with SMB

[zackboll]

SMB questions

I am having trouble getting Samba to work on my Debian Etch installation.

I want the Linux machine to serve files and the Windows machine to receive files.

I am able to get SMB to work for Linux to Linux, but I cannot get it to work for Windows to Linux. On my windows machine, I go to view workgroup computers. I see the Linux computer listed (Zacklap server (Samba 3.0.23d)
When I click on the icon, I get prompted to enter username and password. This is where I get stuck, I cannot get the username I log into the debian installation with, or other test_user names that I created to work.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
Zack

[AlexK]

Check out this tutorial Esp the section re smbpasswd and testparm

Also are the Linux users able to login with the Samba username+passwords?

[Stickan]

I'm a newbie on Linux so I can't say what made the trick but after a reboot with this smb.conf I can get access to my user directory using my user login.

Eh, I just remember...
I guess you have to create a samba password with: smbpasswd to get this to work.

Regards
/Stickan