Samba

[alancooney]

Ok I have 2 pcs:
1 Linux Fedora
1 Windows Xp

They are both on wireless network, and can ping each others IPs.

I am trying to share files, so I set up a Samba server on my Linux machine. On windows I can go to Network Places -> Home and then my linux machine appears named "homeserver (alan)".

When I click on it I get the following message:

\\Alan is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

The network path was not found.

Please can someone tell me how to fix this, and make the filesharing work.

Thanks, Alan

[darklordsatan]

Probably its a problem with password encryption, try adding the following line to smb.conf file

encrypt passwords = yes

and then creating the smbpasswd file
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smbpasswd.5.html

[alancooney]

Ok I have turned encript passwords on and now have a few files named smbpasswd:

etc/samba/sambapsswd :

alan:500:8D8A0565BDA42A96C2265B23734E0DAC:C8F275DE D37BC14ACE5B5910F9B86388:[U ]:LCT-426A83DB:

I think that is the one, but how do I edit it, I don't understand the official site guide? Cheers, Alan

[darklordsatan]

Well, have you tried connecting again to see if it works, I mean, with the pass file created, now you should be able to (if the problem was generated by pass encryption...)

Notice in order to change the password in that file, youll need to use
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smbpasswd.8.html

[rong]

Ok I have 2 pcs:
1 Linux Fedora
1 Windows Xp

They are both on wireless network, and can ping each others IPs.

I am trying to share files, so I set up a Samba server on my Linux machine. On windows I can go to Network Places -> Home and then my linux machine appears named "homeserver (alan)".

When I click on it I get the following message:

\\Alan is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

The network path was not found.

Please can someone tell me how to fix this, and make the filesharing work.

Thanks, Alan

Did you set:

 smbpasswd

This will prompt you to add user and pword. Use the same name and pword you login to XP with.

[linux_sucker]

i got the same problem. i tried the smbpasswd and all those things
i make sure that the IP of my win xp is allowed by the windows.
but still i cant connect to the pc
getting same error as the above

did urs work.?
thanks
soham

[linux_sucker]

i got the same problem. i tried the smbpasswd and all those things
i make sure that the IP of my win xp is allowed by the windows.
but still i cant connect to the pc
getting same error as the above

did urs work.?
thanks
soham

[linux_sucker]

i got the same problem. i tried the smbpasswd and all those things
i make sure that the IP of my win xp is allowed by the windows.
but still i cant connect to the pc
getting same error as the above

did urs work.?
thanks
soham

[adrenaline]

Ok I have 2 pcs:
1 Linux Fedora
1 Windows Xp

They are both on wireless network, and can ping each others IPs.

I am trying to share files, so I set up a Samba server on my Linux machine. On windows I can go to Network Places -> Home and then my linux machine appears named "homeserver (alan)".

When I click on it I get the following message:

\\Alan is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

The network path was not found.

Please can someone tell me how to fix this, and make the filesharing work.

Thanks, Alan

Did you set:

 smbpasswd

This will prompt you to add user and pword. Use the same name and pword you login to XP with.

Alan,
You need to set the samba password like this:
smb -a <username> #username being the same as the user on the linux machine
for example if you have a user on the linux box named joeb then you need a samba password to

useradd joeb
passwd
passwd
smbpasswd -a joeb

that should do the trick
Mike

[alancooney]

smb -a root
smb -a alan

these commands come up as not found. I have tried all other suggestions and still no luck.. Also, how do I access the shared are on my Windows XP laptop?

Cheers anyway, Alan