Samba

[alexillsley]

Hey,
I set up a SAMBA server on my linux machine so i could access all my files on my windows XP machine. I setup samaba all up then goto Workgroups on windows XP then to my workgroup and then to my linux machine a password dialog appears and i enter the SAMBA user i created then i can see a list of accessible folders / shares and printers. I then click on a share folder and a second password dialog come up though this time when i attempt to login it appears not to let me the password dialog just reappears. How can i access my linux shares on my windows machine?

Any help would be really apreciated,
Thanks,
Alex

By the way i am using OpenSUSE 10.2 and Windows XP Media Center

[j1s]

Hi,
some time ago I had the same problem. I solved it by building up the smb.conf file step-by-step. You need to have the same user accounts on both computers. You can see what I ended up with. I did not consider any sercurity, since these computers are in my house, and I'm the only user.

[global]
workgroup = JCI
security = user
encrypt passwords = Yes
hosts deny = All
hosts allow = 10.0.0.
os level = 65
preferred master = Yes
domain master = Yes
local master = Yes

[home]
comment = User Dirs
path = /home/%U
read only = No
printable = No

[web]
comment = Apache 2 folder
path = /var/www
read only = Yes
write list = jens

[scripts]
comment = CGI-Bin folder
path = /usr/lib/cgi-bin
read only = Yes
write list = jens

This file works fine for me.

[j1s]

Just remembered....

You need to synchronize the smbpasswd-file with the passwd-file.

http://www.tamos.net/guide/manpages/...bpasswd.8.html

[alexillsley]

Thanks for reply Ill test it out, hopefully it works