Need help with samba

[sambatyon]

hi,

I need to connect a linux (FC3) machine to a windows workgroup.

In the following description CEYAH is a linux machine and MACHINA is a windows machine.

I downloaded and installed the latest (3.0.14a) samba release and followed all the tutorials in the samba.org site but still I can't make the Windows machines in the workgroup to access services on the linux machine.

I do get network connectivity between the machines and I can see the linux machine in "My Network Places" but still when I try to view its services using "net view \\CEYAH" I get "The network path was not found".

I can view services on the Windows machines from the linux machine using "smbclient -L \\MACHINA".

Any ideas about what is wrong and what can I do to make it work?

[CompDude]

If you have encrypt passwords set to off on the samba box, you will have to make a change to the windows registry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\lanmanworkstation\parameters

Oncey ou have navigated to there, find the "enableplaintextpasswords" and double click it. Change the value from 0 to 1. Then reboot the system.

[sambatyon]

If you have encrypt passwords set to off on the samba box, you will have to make a change to the windows registry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\lanmanworkstation\parameters

Oncey ou have navigated to there, find the "enableplaintextpasswords" and double click it. Change the value from 0 to 1. Then reboot the system.

That's not it - the enableplaintextpasswords value was already set to 1
although I changed it in services->local security policy.

[sambatyon]

Problem solved - was a firewall issue : both nmbd and smbd listening ports (137,138,139,445) were blocked by the linux machine firewall.

[LBmtb]

Problem solved - was a firewall issue : both nmbd and smbd listening ports (137,138,139,445) were blocked by the linux machine firewall.

That firewall issue messed me up for awhile at first too. Congrats on finding it yourself.