SAMBA Issue: "Network path was not found" on Windows XP SP2 Client

[gbturpin]

SAMBA Issue: "Network path was not found" on Windows XP SP2 Client

Ok,

I've configured Samba on my Fedora Core 6 system to share a few group folders under /home/groups/.

This /home partition is a separate mount that located on a SAN.

Using the system-config-samba GUI I've created two samba shares that reflect the two folders under /home/groups that I want to share. They are /home/groups/group312 and /home/group/group320.

I then told samba that the workgroup should be lfs1 and that the security settings should be:
Authentication Mode = User
Encrypt Passwords = Yes
Guest Account = eeguser

I then created a WIndows User that maps to eeguser as well.

On the Linux system, the group folders are owned by 'eeguser' and the group ownership is also 'eeguser'

Oddly, when I browse the lfs1 linux box from the network, I see the two group folders, and then I also see eeguser's /home directory (/home/eeguser).

I can not access the contents of the two group folders, but I can access the contents of eeguser's home directory.

When I attempt to browse into either group312 or group320 (the samba shares) I get an error on the Windows XP client:

"Network path was not found."

When I check the samba log for that machine, I get multiple instances of:

[2007/04/02 13:36:40, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(920)
'/home/groups/tto502' does not exist or permission denied when connecting to [tto502] Error was Permission denied

Oh, and I'm running the 3.0.24-3.fc6 version of samba.

What in the world is the issue?

Gerhard

PS:

[root@lfs1 samba]# testparm /etc/samba/smb.conf
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
Processing section "[homes]"
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[group312]"
Processing section "[group320]"
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

[global]
workgroup = LFS1
server string = Lab File Server 1
guest account = eeguser
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
dns proxy = No
guest ok = Yes
hosts allow = 192.168.14., 127.0.0.1
cups options = raw

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
browseable = No

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /usr/spool/samba
printable = Yes
browseable = No

[group312]
comment = Group 312 Share
path = /home/groups/group312
read only = No

group320]
comment = Group 320 Share
path = /home/groups/group320
read only = No
[root@lfs1 samba]#

[bhaslinux]

I am solving anything here but just trying to share some of my experiences
1. Is iptables running in the samba machine ?
from the XP box try
telnet <the unix box> 139

port 139 is samba port and if telnet is successful and you get a blank screen, then there is no problem with iptables. If telnet hangs, then you have to look into eihter adding 139 as trusted port or to stop iptables if the machine is in
secure network.

[pknissar]

I was also having the same problem. I just stopped the "iptables" service and "samba" is now working fine.

Thank you