Samba: Can't Access Win2000 Shares from Linux

Greetings,

I'm running Linux Fedora Core 2 with Samba 3.0.3-5 installed. It is connected to a LAN which has 2 Win98SE and 1 Win2k boxes.

From the command prompt, "smbclient -L hostname -U username" works for all Win boxes; however, "smbmount" gives me: "5717: session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) SMB connection failed" when I try to mount a file share on the Win2k box. "smbmount" works for the 2 Win98SE boxes. I can print from Linux to a shared printer on one of the Win98SE boxes.

In Gnome, when I click Computer->Network->Windows Network->Workgroup I can see the Windows boxes on my network. When I click on the icon for the Win2k box, I get an error box that says "The folder contents could not be displayed. You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of the "Windows Network: ***"

From all of the Windows boxes I can access the Linux box. I can access the Win2k box from the Win98SE boxes.

Samba is configured to encrypt passwords, and "Guests" are authorized on the Win2k share.

Does anyone know what's going on here?

Thanks,

GS

well i'm not verry sure about this but i guess the problem is that you should creat the same user on the win2k machine so that it will be granted access, caus that's what the error msg means
hope i helped
;)

How u configured the samba
is as a share or security......


Let me know abt that............

try

Code:

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mount.smb //win2kbox/share /mnt/mountpoint -o username=winuser

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Provide: password for winuser when prompted.

Thanks for all the comments. I'm running at "user" level security.

Last night, I changed some parameters in my samba config file, and ran "smbpasswd -a username" for each user. When I went to bed last night, smbmount (and mount.smb) were working for both the Win98SE and Win2k boxes. Once mounted, I could browse the share in Nautilus, open, drag-and-drop, etc. Still had the problem with the "Network" window in Gnome, but I thought that I had made progress.

This morning, I rebooted, and when I tried smbmount (mount.smb) everything seemed to work (no error messages). Then when I tried to access the mountpoint - via Nautilus or by doing "ls" in a terminal - the system froze. If I try smbumount I get "Device or resource busy." I have to use "umount -l" to unmount the share.

What's weird is that the behavour is very erratic. If I start and stop nmb and smb a few times, and change some changes with SWAT, and then try again, then smbmount works fine. Once I reboot, it all starts again.

Here are the results of testparm:

# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = UCHI
server string = %L running samba %v
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers.map
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
ldap ssl = no
idmap uid = 16777216-33554431
idmap gid = 16777216-33554431

[homes]
comment = home on neronga
path = %H
valid users = %S
read only = No
hide special files = Yes
hide unreadable = Yes
hide unwriteable files = Yes
browseable = No

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

[files]
comment = network files on neronga
path = /export/samba/files
read only = No
guest ok = Yes

I can mount shares using the mount command and I can see all the servers and shares using smbclient -L servername.
All this works

Once i have mounted the shre using "mount" I can also brows using nautilus.

But when i try to brows the network things go wrong. I can see the workgroup and all the pc in it (DCD and all) its a wk2 ads domain by the way.

When I try to access a single pc i get this: You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "Windows Network: ghost". and thats it.

I can access the shares on my own linux box using smb:// but thats where it ends.

I am running fedora core 2 and have a windows 2k AD domain running. It worked fine with my old Fedora core 1 box.

Please any body help.

Here is my smb.conf

# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = TESTFR
realm = ADSERVER.TESTFR.NET
server string = Fedora Core 2
security = DOMAIN
auth methods = guest, sam, winbind
password server = 10.10.10.1:389
guest account = carl
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
time server = Yes
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
dns proxy = No
wins server = 10.10.10.1
ldap ssl = no
idmap uid = 16777216-33554431
idmap gid = 16777216-33554431
winbind use default domain = Yes
winbind trusted domains only = Yes
guest ok = Yes

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
browseable = No

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

[download]
comment = Meine Downloads
path = /home/carl/download

Hi Butler,

I reported this to bugzilla here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=125201

And apparently, two other reports describing the same problem have been filed:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=123899

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=125336

I think you should add your observations, as a comment, to one of the above bug reports. The fact that it worked under FC1 is significant.

~ GS

Hi,

Have added a comment to the Bug posted in bugzilla.

Have noted that it seems to only be aproblem with browsing available shares on the w2k PC

Do you have the same problem or is this just me maiking slow progress.

Browsing the share directly via nautilus using smb://server/share works fine.

Butter

Yes, I am having the same problems. The problem only appears when I try to browse the shares on a Win2K box. It works fine for the Win98SE machines.

Using smb://server/share is probably the best workaround (for accessing the shares) until this gets fixed. To browse the shares on a Win2k machine, use smbclient -L server.