Samba Configuration Problem

[dcapone]

Hi,

I am trying to configure a Samba file server on CentOS 5.4 running kernel version 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 and samba version 3.0.33-3.15.el5_4.1.

If I configure Samba for "forced user" mode which is basically anonymous access, there is no problem accessing the shares. The config I have for this is:

[global]

server string = CentOS VM File Server %v
security = user
passdb backend = tdbsam
wins server = 192.168.21.2
map to guest=Bad User
[data]
comment = Data Storage
path = /data
force user = myuser
force group = sambausers
; valid users = myuser
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
nt acl support = No

When I attempt to switch the configuration to only allow valid windows users to access the share I run into problems. The windows usernames (myuser for this example) is the same on the windows machines and was setup as follows as the linux machine:

# useradd myuser -G sambausers
# passwd myuser
.....entered password matching windows password twice, said it was successful

Then I configured permissions on the share path (this was actually done the same way for the "anonymous" access above:

# chown -R myuser:sambausers /data
# chmod -R ug+rwxs,o-w,o+rw /data

The Samba configuration was updated to:

[global]

server string = CentOS VM File Server %v
security = user
passdb backend = tdbsam
wins server = 192.168.21.2
; map to guest=Bad User
[data]
comment = Data Storage
path = /data
; force user = myuser
; force group = sambausers
valid users = myuser
read only = No
; guest ok = Yes
; nt acl support = No

After restarting the samba server, I attempt to access the share from a windows machine logged in as "myuser" and I receive a "Login failure: unknown user or bad password" error with a box prompting for credentials. I retype the login info and the same box just comes up. I have no trouble logging onto the linux machine directly using these same credentials, so I am at a loss as to the problem.

I also tried commenting out the valid users line and still have the same problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[scathefire]

did you add the user using smbpasswd?

[dcapone]

I was under the impression that using the tdbsam backend no longer required the use of smbpasswd?

[dcapone]

I apparently I misread something somewhere as that did the trick.