On Fri Mar 29 2002 at 00:04, "vishist mandapaka" wrote: > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (Please don't use that, turn it off in your outrage excess mailer). > Hi, > I am unable to access the linux file system through windows using = > Samba. Here am providing the configuration file that I used. Can any one = > point me what went wrong here. > # Global parameters > [global] > workgroup =3D RHIC > netbios name =3D RHIC Without looking any further at what else you have there, here you have broken one of the primary rules concerning netbios host and domain names... a domain name can never be used as a host's name, and no hosts in any workgroup in the same domain may have the same name. Otherwise very-bad-things-happen. Change the netbios name and see what happens, if they all belong to the "RHIC" domain then that should at least get the linux box seen on the netbios network. Further down, disable wins and domain master... the rest of the config is not adequate enough to properly support it, and you probably don't want the linux box to be the domain master if one exists already (and in that case you should specify where it is with the "password server =" directive and have local user and smbpasswd accounts for all users who need local access. Unless you use winbind but that is another story). If all you want to achieve is simple file sharing with windows boxes on a private LAN (heh, where _all_ windows boxes belong anyway:) then you might specify "security = share" and not worry about a password server at all. The [homes] section won't really work as you want, and it is a very bad thing to have them public and writable by anyone. Home directories are just that, private user home directories. Set a "public" share somewhere (eg, /home/samba/public with mode 1777) and use that space to share files. Additionally, if you can use "smbclient -L winclient" and get a listing of it's shares, then you should be able to smbmount them onto your linux box - that can be a very useful and easy way to get access into the windows boxes. (This question really does not belong in redhat-devel, try the mailing list for the redhat distribution you are using, or the samba mailing list). Cheers Tony ---*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=--- Tony Nugent <Tony@linuxworks.com.au> LinuxWorks - Gold Coast Qld Australia
