Samba and RHEL 5.7- problem with Samba 3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2

[coldrunner]

I have been doing some Googling trying to solve a problem with Samba 3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2
I think I'm about 1 setting adjustment from being finished.
I'm not a Unix/Linux expert, more like an advanced beginner.

I have been trying to setup what I hoped might be a simple sharing network, connecting a
Dell Optiplex 980 Windows XP sp3 PC with 1 Dell Optiplex 990 PC that is running
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 (RHEL57). I installed the RHEL57 on the Dell Optiplex 990 and
that is the only OS that is on it. I reformatted hard drive, which wiped off Windows 7.

I have PCs both connected via an older Linksys 10/100 8 port Cisco workgroup switch,
with ethernet cables. I actually have the 2 PCs connected and visible to each other in a workgroup
called RHEL5.

I log into the XPsp3 PC as rthompson and I login to the RHEL57 PC as either root or rthompson.
My objective is to see the RHEL57 PC folders and files on the XPsp3 PC, not so much the other way.

I can see “/home/rthompson” and "printers and faxes" in Windows Explorer on the XPsp3 PC and
open their sub-folders. But I can't open any other folders that I have created for testing purposes.
For any other folders, when I click on them, I receive an error message, no matter how I
manipulate the Samba configuration.
It looks like this in Windows Explorer:

My Network Places
Entire Network
Microsoft Windows Network
Rhel5
Samba Server Versipn 3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2
AUDITWORK
rthompson
TESTHOME
TESTWORK
printers and faxes

The error I receive when I click on any one of the other 3 test folders is:
"\\Linux\AUDITWORK is not accessible. You might not have permissions to use this network resource.
Contact the administrator of this service to find out if you have access permissions.
The Network path was not found."


I know that Samba does not overide the RHEL57 file and folder permissions so I have the 3 test
folders created in several places with the following permissions:

/home/TestHome drwxrwxrwx+ root root 4096 (date)
/usr/TestWork drwxrwxrwx+ root root 4096 (date)
/AuditWork drwxrwxrwx+ root root 4096 (date)

When I first setup RHEL57, I started using the KDE environment first. KDE has the Control Center.
In Control Center, I used the Samba utility to define the 3 test folders.
There are these tabs in Control Center/Samba Base settings/Shares/Printers/Users/Advanced
I setup the 3 test folders as Shares. I gave them the full drwxrwxrwx and I even defined myself and root
as an allowed users for those folders.

Later, I discovered the SWAT utility using port 901, and I tried to define the same Shares with full permissions there.

The SWAT view utility shows the following Samba config file:

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# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1)
# Date: 2012/03/19 12:51:39

[global]
dos charset = CP850
unix charset = UTF-8
display charset = LOCALE
workgroup = RHEL5
realm =
netbios name = LINUX
netbios aliases =
netbios scope =
server string = Samba Server Version %v
interfaces = lo, eth0, 192.168.1.3/255.255.255.0
bind interfaces only = No
security = USER
auth methods =
encrypt passwords = Yes
update encrypted = No
client schannel = Auto
server schannel = Auto
allow trusted domains = Yes
map to guest = Never
null passwords = Yes
obey pam restrictions = No
password server = *
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
private dir = /etc/samba
passdb backend = tdbsam
algorithmic rid base = 1000
root directory =
guest account = nobody
enable privileges = Yes
pam password change = No
passwd program =
passwd chat = *new*password* %n\n *new*password* %n\n *changed*
passwd chat debug = No
passwd chat timeout = 20
check password script =
username map =
password level = 0
username level = 0
unix password sync = No
restrict anonymous = 0
lanman auth = Yes
ntlm auth = Yes
client NTLMv2 auth = No
client lanman auth = Yes
client plaintext auth = Yes
preload modules =
use kerberos keytab = No
log level = 0
syslog = 1
syslog only = No
log file =
max log size = 5000
debug timestamp = Yes
debug prefix timestamp = No
debug hires timestamp = No
debug pid = No
debug uid = No
enable core files = Yes
smb ports = 445 139
large readwrite = Yes
max protocol = NT1
min protocol = CORE
read bmpx = No
read raw = Yes
write raw = Yes
disable netbios = No
reset on zero vc = No
acl compatibility = auto
defer sharing violations = Yes
nt pipe support = Yes
nt status support = Yes
announce version = 4.9
announce as = NT
max mux = 50
max xmit = 16644
name resolve order = lmhosts wins host bcast
max ttl = 259200
max wins ttl = 518400
min wins ttl = 21600
time server = No
unix extensions = Yes
use spnego = Yes
client signing = auto
server signing = auto
client use spnego = Yes
enable asu support = No
svcctl list =
deadtime = 0
getwd cache = Yes
keepalive = 300
lpq cache time = 30
max smbd processes = 0
paranoid server security = Yes
max disk size = 0
max open files = 10000
open files database hash size = 10007
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
use mmap = Yes
hostname lookups = No
name cache timeout = 660
load printers = Yes
printcap cache time = 750
printcap name =
cups server =
iprint server =
disable spoolss = No
addport command =
enumports command =
addprinter command =
deleteprinter command =
show add printer wizard = Yes
os2 driver map =
mangling method = hash2
mangle prefix = 1
max stat cache size = 1024
stat cache = Yes
machine password timeout = 604800
add user script =
rename user script =
delete user script =
add group script =
delete group script =
add user to group script =
delete user from group script =
set primary group script =
add machine script =
shutdown script =
abort shutdown script =
username map script =
logon script =
logon path = \\%N\%U\profile
logon drive =
logon home = \\%N\%U
domain logons = No
os level = 20
lm announce = Auto
lm interval = 60
preferred master = No
local master = Yes
domain master = No
browse list = Yes
enhanced browsing = Yes
dns proxy = Yes
wins proxy = No
wins server =
wins support = No
wins hook =
kernel oplocks = Yes
lock spin time = 200
oplock break wait time = 0
ldap admin dn =
ldap delete dn = No
ldap group suffix =
ldap idmap suffix =
ldap machine suffix =
ldap passwd sync = no
ldap replication sleep = 1000
ldap suffix =
ldap ssl = no
ldap timeout = 15
ldap page size = 1024
ldap user suffix =
ldap debug level = 0
ldap debug threshold = 10
add share command =
change share command =
delete share command =
eventlog list =
config file =
preload =
lock directory = /var/cache/samba
pid directory = /var/run
utmp directory =
wtmp directory =
utmp = No
default service =
message command =
get quota command =
set quota command =
remote announce =
remote browse sync =
socket address = 0.0.0.0
homedir map = auto.home
afs username map =
afs token lifetime = 604800
log nt token command =
time offset = 0
NIS homedir = No
usershare allow guests = No
usershare max shares = 0
usershare owner only = Yes
usershare path = /AuditWork
usershare prefix allow list =
usershare prefix deny list =
usershare template share =
panic action =
host msdfs = Yes
passdb expand explicit = No
idmap domains =
idmap backend =
idmap alloc backend =
idmap cache time = 900
idmap negative cache time = 120
idmap uid = 16777216-33554431
idmap gid = 16777216-33554431
template homedir = /home/%D/%U
template shell = /bin/false
winbind separator = \
winbind cache time = 300
winbind enum users = No
winbind enum groups = No
winbind use default domain = No
winbind trusted domains only = No
winbind nested groups = Yes
winbind nss info = template
winbind refresh tickets = No
winbind offline logon = No
winbind normalize names = No
comment =
path =
username =
invalid users =
valid users =
admin users =
read list =
write list =
printer admin =
force user =
force group =
read only = Yes
acl check permissions = Yes
acl group control = No
acl map full control = Yes
create mask = 0744
force create mode = 00
security mask = 0777
force security mode = 00
directory mask = 0755
force directory mode = 00
directory security mask = 0777
force directory security mode = 00
force unknown acl user = No
inherit permissions = No
inherit acls = No
inherit owner = No
guest only = No
administrative share = No
guest ok = No
only user = No
hosts allow = 192.168.1.2, 192.168.1.3
hosts deny =
allocation roundup size = 1048576
aio read size = 0
aio write size = 0
aio write behind =
ea support = No
nt acl support = Yes
profile acls = No
map acl inherit = No
afs share = No
block size = 1024
change notify = Yes
directory name cache size = 100
kernel change notify = Yes
max connections = 0
min print space = 0
strict allocate = No
strict sync = No
sync always = No
use sendfile = No
write cache size = 0
max reported print jobs = 0
max print jobs = 1000
printable = No
printing = cups
cups options = raw
print command =
lpq command = %p
lprm command =
lppause command =
lpresume command =
queuepause command =
queueresume command =
printer name =
use client driver = No
default devmode = Yes
force printername = No
printjob username = %U
default case = lower
case sensitive = Auto
preserve case = Yes
short preserve case = Yes
mangling char = ~
hide dot files = Yes
hide special files = No
hide unreadable = No
hide unwriteable files = No
delete veto files = No
veto files =
hide files =
veto oplock files =
map archive = Yes
map hidden = No
map system = No
map readonly = yes
mangled names = Yes
mangled map =
store dos attributes = No
dmapi support = No
browseable = Yes
blocking locks = Yes
csc policy = manual
fake oplocks = No
locking = Yes
oplocks = Yes
level2 oplocks = Yes
oplock contention limit = 2
posix locking = Yes
strict locking = Auto
share modes = Yes
dfree cache time = 0
dfree command =
copy =
include =
preexec =
preexec close = No
postexec =
root preexec =
root preexec close = No
root postexec =
available = Yes
volume =
fstype = NTFS
set directory = No
wide links = Yes
follow symlinks = Yes
dont descend =
magic script =
magic output =
delete readonly = No
dos filemode = No
dos filetimes = Yes
dos filetime resolution = No
fake directory create times = No
vfs objects =
msdfs root = No
msdfs proxy =

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = rthompson, root
read only = No
case sensitive = No
browseable = No
strict locking = No
msdfs proxy = no

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

[AuditLogs]
comment = Use only for auditing Logs
path = /var/log/audit
valid users = rthompson, root
admin users = rthompson, root
read only = No
case sensitive = No
strict locking = No
msdfs proxy = no

[LOG]
path = /var/log
valid users = rthompson, root
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
case sensitive = No
strict locking = No
msdfs proxy = no

[AUDITWORK]
comment = Work Directory
path = /AuditWork
valid users = rthompson, root
read only = No
case sensitive = No
strict locking = No
msdfs proxy = no

[TESTWORK]
path = /usr/TestWork/
valid users = rthompson, root
admin users = rthompson, root
write list = rthompson, root
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
case sensitive = No
strict locking = No
msdfs proxy = no

[TESTHOME]
path = /home/TestHome/
valid users = rthompson, root
write list = rthompson, root
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
case sensitive = No
strict locking = No
msdfs proxy = no

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It seems like Samba will not allow the Windows client user to see anything other than Home folders
and printers and Faxes, for the rthompson login to Samba or the root login to Samba, from Windows.

Can you see anything I am doing wrong?

Rick Thompson
603-886-2320

[slapandtickle69]

Hay coldrunner, I hope you are well.

In regards to your problem the syntax looks good to me there must be a minor error in there some where.