RE: Samba config for Windows on VMWare

[Mark Schoonover <schoon@xxxxxxxx>]

 

From: Mark Hull-Richter [mailto:mhull-richter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 12:15 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Samba config for Windows on VMWare

I know this is a little off topic (not as usual, dammit!), but I figure at least one of y'all can handle this one.

 

I have tried to configure my CentOS4.4 Plus desktop for samba sharing with the VMWare Windows that runs on it.  However, no matter what I've done so far, I can't get the Windows to recognize this machine as a legitimate network destination.

 

Here's my samba config file:

 

[root@mhullrichter shared]# cat /etc/samba/smb.conf

# Global parameters

[global]

        server string = Samba Server

        security = SHARE

        log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log

        max log size = 50

        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

        printcap name = /etc/printcap

        dns proxy = No

        idmap uid = 16777216-33554431

        idmap gid = 16777216-33554431

        cups options = raw

 

[homes]

        comment = Home Directories

        read >

        browseable = No

 

[public]

        comment = Data

        path = /home/mark

        force user = mark

        force group = users

        read >

        guest ok = Yes

 

[printers]

        comment = All Printers

        path = /var/spool/samba

        printable = Yes

        browseable = No

 

It passes testparm, the smb daemons are up and running:

 

[root@mhullrichter shared]# psg smbd

root      2751     1  0 11:44 ?        00:00:00 smbd -D

root      2752  2751  0 11:44 ?        00:00:00 smbd -D

 

I noticed that neither the nmbd nor winbindd daemons are running - dunno why, the startup showed [ OK ].

 

But in the Windows, it can see my machine but can't connect to it - what am I missing?

 

Mark Hull-Richter         Linux Kernel Engineer
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 Mark,

 

    Have you added the samba workstation to your domain/workgroup?? I don't see any security settings in your conf file.

HTH

 

Thanks!

Mark Schoonover *** Winner of the 2008 Best Psychic Award
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