Accessing Linux share from windows xp

[davidsc]

Have Samba set up so that I can see Windows machines from my Debian Linux box. However I cannot access the share I have created on my Linux box from Windows XP. I am prompted to enter username and password but the connection does not happen.
I tried setting 'interfaces = lo eth0' and 'bind interfaces only = true' in smb.conf file to no avail.
My samba log file shows 'Error Connection reset by peer'


David

[athlon_crazy]

Create samba user & password same as your winxp user then using it for samba login..

[framp]

You most probably didin't create samba passwords with smbpasswd. If that's not the case then increase the trace level on the samba server and check the logs in /var/log/samba for error messages.

[minersrevolt]

How does one create a password for Samba? It automatically downloaded when I set a folder to be shared, and I am experiencing the same problems as the topic creator. There was nothing prompting a password to be created, thanks.

[framp]

I just modified my previous posting so it now has the command to create smb pwds in bold

[minersrevolt]

Hey again, go me for missing the command line. Anyway, this is what I did, and what I encountered :

usr@usr-desktop:~$ smbpasswd
Old SMB password:
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Could not connect to machine 127.0.0.1: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
Failed to change password for usr

What am I doing incorrectly here?

[framp]

1) samba not up and running? Check with netstat -tpvln and look for port 139 and 445.
2) Execute smbpasswd as root

[minersrevolt]

It doesn't appear that samba is running,

usr@usr-desktop:~$ netstat -tpvin
Kernel Interface table
Iface   MTU Met   RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR    TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
eth0   1500 0     41145      0      0      0    26533      0      0      0 BMRU
lo    16436 0       216      0      0      0      216      0      0      0 LRU

I am ignorant on how to operate it, obviously. So any more advice would help, thanks again.


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I also ran smbpasswd as root, and it appeared to update it, however the password still doesn't work when trying to open the computer on a windows pc.

[framp]

Pls invoke netstat with a lowercase L instead of lowercase I.

Command to start samba is /etc/init.d/smb start

XP has a FW which blocks traffic. Pls shut down the FW and test to connect again when samba is up and running.

[davidsc]

Hi,

Now that my shared Linux folder is visible on my Windows XP computer I can't copy a file from Windows to that Linux folder. Windows gives me an access denied error even though the folder has full permissions on it after I ran 'chmod 777 folder' and made sure that through 'Administration | Shared Folders' that the folder was not read only.


David