Re: Help setting up Samba

From: Lew Pitcher (Lew.Pitcher_at_td.com)
Date: 05/19/04 

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 11:05:18 -0400

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Richard Bell wrote:
> I'm installing a Fedora Core 1 based machine into an existing network
> of Windows machines. The network configuration includes a number of
> Win 95, Win 98, Win NT, Win 2000, and Win XP machines. Many of the
> machines come and go depending on current projects. The existing
> machines are all connected to a LinkSys Router configured as a DHCP
> server that, in turn, provides access to the Internet for all the
> machines. The network does not use either a WINS or DNS server,
> instead depending on broadcast name resolution.
>
> I installed Fedora from a DVD that came with "The Complete Reference,
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora Edition", Osborne, RIchard Petersen
> and Ibrahim Haddad. The install went cleanly with no apparent events.
>
> From the new Fedora machine, F1, I can access the Internet via
> Mozilla, ping various Internet sites by name, etc. All seems well
> relative to the Internet. From F1 I'm able to
> ping the existing Win machines by IP address, I can not ping them by
> name (get an "unknown host" error message). Additionally, when I do a
> "net view" from the Win machines, I do not see F1, the Fedora machine.
> I am, however, able to ping it from any of the Win machines by IP.
> The Linksys DHCP active IP table shows all the machine names,
> including the Fedora F1 machine, and their IPs. I understand that this
> is expected behavior and thus believe that all is fundamentally well
> with the network configuration.
>
> I've installed Samba 3.0.2-7 and configured it with a test share as
> follows (smb.conf):
>
> [global]
> workgroup = cindy
> server string = Fedora 1 WS
> password server = None
> security = SHARE
> [test]
> comment = For testing only, please
> path = /usr/local/samba/tmp
> writeable = yes
> guest ok = yes
>
> I restart the Samba server using the redhat tool. The directory exist
> and has two test files cleverly named 'one' and 'two'.
>
> Subsequently, I can see the Fedora F1 machine on the network on WinXP
> and Win98 machines from either 'net view' or by browsing out of
> explorer. When I attempt to access the share on XP with explorer I
> get an error "\\F1 is not accessible." I get similar errors on the
> Win98 machines.
>
> On all the machines I've created a login account with the same name
> and password.
>
> This is all new ground for me, and I'm unsure how to proceed. Based
> on what I've read, I think that at this point I should be able to see
> and access the 'test' share. Can anyone point me toward what I've
> done wrong or provide any clues for diagnosing the problem?
>
> Thanks.
>
> R
>

Two things,

1) From the Samba help webpage that comes with SWAT, it appears that if
   you have a share defined with "guest ok = yes" (as your TEST share
   is), you need to ensure that you have a proper guest account (guest
   account = <some valid Linux logonid>) defined.

2) While you defined your TEST share as "guest ok = yes", you haven't
   defined the entire server as "guest ok = yes". So, an attempt to
   access the root share will be validated against the server's
   smbpasswd rules. Have you added your winXP account to smbpasswd?

- --

Lew Pitcher, IT Consultant, Enterprise Application Architecture
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)
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