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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'
:confused:
David
Create samba user & password same as your winxp user then using it for samba login..
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.
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.
I just modified my previous posting so it now has the command to create smb pwds in bold :rolleyes:
Hey again, go me for missing the command line. Anyway, this is what I did, and what I encountered :
What am I doing incorrectly here?Code: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
1) samba not up and running? Check with netstat -tpvln and look for port 139 and 445.
2) Execute smbpasswd as root
It doesn't appear that samba is running,
Code: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.
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.
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