samba.........prob!!

[aparna]

hi
in my organization, we have windows 98, windows XP and linux 9 pcs connected by LAN. i have installed samba on the linux 9 machine. i am able to see linux contents properly, but there's a prob with the windows contents. i can see the workgroup, PCs and the shared folders, but no files, it shows those folders as empty. what should i do??
another thing....do i have to add all the usernames and passwords of the other machines so that they can view my linux shared contents? That would cause a lot of prob as we are trying to migrate from windows to linux, on all linux machines it will not be feasible to add all the other 60 PC's usernames and passwords.
Kindly answer my queries
aparna

[Opnosforatou]

hi
in my organization, we have windows 98, windows XP and linux 9 pcs connected by LAN. i have installed samba on the linux 9 machine. i am able to see linux contents properly, but there's a prob with the windows contents. i can see the workgroup, PCs and the shared folders, but no files, it shows those folders as empty. what should i do??
another thing....do i have to add all the usernames and passwords of the other machines so that they can view my linux shared contents? That would cause a lot of prob as we are trying to migrate from windows to linux, on all linux machines it will not be feasible to add all the other 60 PC's usernames and passwords.
Kindly answer my queries
aparna

With Linux 9 I assume you mean Red Hat 9.
About those empty shares, there are 3 possible sollutions.
1) give all pc's all usersnames and password.
You don't want this, if someone changes his password, good luck with the rest of the systems.

2) Enable the Guest user on the windows machines and allow guest access to the shares.
This is the easiest sollutions and the fastest,

3) Create a domain where all user information is stored on one machine, this way authentication queries are resolved by your PDC.

If you want to switch everything to Linux/*Nix then I would suggest to create a Unix domain (comparable to a W2K Domain) and use samba to emulate that domain for all you Windows workstations.

[Dewey]

is it possible for you to past in the smb.conf??
maybe if u use the "guest ok = yes" for your share it might work then
it would be clear if we can see the sonfig file for samba
ciao

[aparna]

Samba config file created using SWAT
# from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1)
# Date: 2004/06/01 13:39:15

# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = MYGROUP
server string = samba server on aparna
security = SHARE
encrypt passwords = Yes
obey pam restrictions = Yes
pam password change = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*success fully*
unix password sync = Yes
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 0
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
dns proxy = No
guest ok = Yes
hosts allow = 192.168.1. 127.
printing = cups
printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = Yes
browseable = No

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No

[aparna]
comment = home directory
path = /root/aparna/
read only = No



this is my smb.conf file....kindly look into it and suggest changes

[sunnylearns]

If you are able to View Linux Contents from Windows Boxes, there's *NOTHING* wrong in your SAMBA configuration.

Now to view Windows' shares. you need to authenticate to windows Network. see my previous posts on mounting windows' shares on how to authenticate to windows network.