On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 02:44 +0800, Noob Centos Admin wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > But, if you want to do it the hard way, you probably have an
>
> Unfortunately I do want to do it the hard way. While the SME server
> would make things really easy, the lesson I learnt in the past with
> easy thing is that, once something break, I will really have no idea
> what is going on.
>
> It's kind of like folks who grew up knowing only GUI, they usually are
> helpless if the mouse doesn't work.
>
> > authentication issue. With the default security setting of 'user', the
> > windows users must authenticate before they can even see a share - and
> > things get weird if the name they used to log into windows is not the
> > same as the linux/samba login name. You can still map drives if you
> > explicitly specify \\server\share, 'connect as other user' and fill in
> > the name and password, but browsing for shares often doesn't work.
>
> I think we have a winner! This could be it as the names they use to
> log into their Windows machine are not their own. Most of them are
> inherited PC, they simply continued using the previous login since no
> password were set, usually.
>
> Where as the other location was a new setup with new PC setup.
>
> > you aren't too concerned about security, you can change this to
> > 'security = share' and then you can browse before authenticating, and
> > also have the option to authenticate as different users when connecting
> > to different shares on the same machine which you can't do in user or
> > server modes.
>
> I'll probably do this since this is what they are used to, and expect.
Share Mode is depreciated now. All that does is revert back to user mode.
> > I don't understand the log issue, though. Are you sure smbd is running?
> > Nmbd would be enough to activate the netbios name - maybe you have a
> > syntax error in smb.conf and smbd did not start.
>
> Definitely running. I have tail -f on both their logs and ls the log
> folder every time. The startup message gets logged everytime I did a
> service restart on trying a different setting. Which was why I was
> curious why there was no log message whatsoever.
>
> The other machine would show new logs for connecting IP/machines (I
> think as a result of me using the split log function) even if they got
> rejected.
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