Several things: - You must log on to your windows with the same userid as those listed in the samba share (root or rjc) - Also make sure passwords are in the same format on both systems. By default Windows incrypts them and I think samba by default, uses plain passwords on linux. Samba comes with a registry patch to make plain password security. But then your errors never mentioned passwords so I might be wrong on this one. -----Original Message----- From: rjc [mailto:rjc@xxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 5:40 AM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Cc: Mike Hobbs Subject: Samba Help - I'm a Samba Newbie Not really sure what questions to ask here. I've tried to configure Samba on my linux server. I want to just make a share on the server browsable via windows explorer which allows me to access my apache config files from windows. I'm the only one using the server, so don't have to worry about configuring home directories and multiple users on the same share or any of that stuff. I just want a simple share, writable by only me, browsable from windows. One question before I give any details however, is this gunna really work for me -- if I'm editing apache config files from, say, notepad, what will happen with respect to line termination. linux/unix uses carriage return, windows uses crlf. Does samba perform translation on the fly? Will this totally break the files? General Configuration Notes 1). Logged in as root, I started both smbd and nmbd from the command line, 2). I used the default configuration file, changing the domain to reflect our local NT domain. 3). I added something like the following: [apacheman] valid users root rjc browseable = yes writable = yes When I tried it with smbclient, and give it the password, it tells me something about "tree connect: server error, unable to connect", or some such. Windows sees the host (shows up in network neighborhood) but gives a "share not found" error when I open it. When I try and mounse it with something like: windows> net use \\barajas\apacheman I get a share not found error. Am I doing mostly the correct thing here? Have I missed anything obvious? Thanx in advance! Rich _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
