Re: Samba and Windows browse question
From: kurt (kurtl_at_olypen.com)
Date: 01/31/05
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:17:36 -0800
Lamar Thomas wrote:
> Hi everyone! I am trying to help some missionaries in Africa out with
> trying to get Samba up and running. However, we have run into a small road
> block. They are running FC2 and Samba 3.?. We have a basic Samba system up
> and running in a Windows workgroup envionment and things work fine with the
> Windows "workgroup" PCs accessing a Samba share. However, that only seems
> to work as long as the Windows PCs are in the same workgroup as the Samba
> server.
>
> Here is the problem. Sometime they have people come into their office from
> the field with a laptop (running Win2k Pro or XP) that is setup to connect
> to a domain (in THEIR home office). When they get to "our" office we need
> to let them have access to one or two shares on the Samba server. When they
> try to access the Samba shares all they get is the Windows username and
> password screen over and over again!
>
> I created a Linux AND a Samba user for them with the same name as their
> Windows user id and password but that didn't work eather. Anyone have any
> other ideas? Here is a little more info:
>
> Workgroup (PCs and Samba server) = wrkgrp
> (Visiting) laptop domain = abc.net
>
> Thanks for any and all help.
>
> Lamar
>
>
I have several Samba server running in a windows environment and can
connect to Samba shares without any problem whether the Windows (2000,
XP) clients are in the same workgroup or not. The laptops should be able
to see all workgroups in My Network Places->Entire Network->Microsoft
Windows Network->[workgroup-name]. Check your smb.conf and make sure
your shares allow either public access or that your users are typing the
correct samba-user/password combo to allow access. You can also try to
connect from the run bar as \\server\share.
...kurt
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