Samba share fails after restart

[gillani]

I am relatively new to linux. I have setup a Samba share and it works until I reboot.

I have Ubuntu 9.04 server with a static IP address.

Currently, it works if I run the following:

# smbpasswd gillani

then enter the password

but as soon as I reboot, I get prompted at the share (in XP and Vista) for a user id and password. If I enter the password it still doesn't work.

As soon as re-run smbpasswd, it works again.



SMB.conf

[global]
; General server settings
netbios name = linux
server string =
workgroup = gillani
announce version = 5.0
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
passdb backend = tdbsam
security = user
null passwords = true
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
name resolve order = hosts wins bcast

wins support = yes

syslog = 1
syslog only = yes

[LinuxShare]
path = /home/shares/allusers
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = no
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
force user = gillani
force group = gillani


Any help is welcome.. thanks

[chris81]

Hi

but as soon as I reboot, I get prompted at the share (in XP and Vista) for a user id and password. If I enter the password it still doesn't work.

As soon as re-run smbpasswd, it works again.

SMB.conf

[global]
; General server settings
netbios name = linux
server string =
workgroup = gillani
announce version = 5.0
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
passdb backend = tdbsam
security = user
null passwords = true
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
name resolve order = hosts wins bcast

wins support = yes

syslog = 1
syslog only = yes

[LinuxShare]
path = /home/shares/allusers
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = no
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
force user = gillani
force group = gillani


Any help is welcome.. thanks

I think that you can just set guest ok = yes instead of no or you can set force user = desired name or if you want an entire group, then set force group = group name

but before, i suggest you to check if there's some mapping in the /etc/samba/smbusers. If so, then you might have to add some mapping into that file and then use those mapping instead of real names in the previous paragraph (force user=mapped user, force group = mapped group).

Hope it helped
chris81