Re: help for samba.conf
I just managed to fix a similar problem myself. I could see the Samba server from
the Windows machines, but couldn't browse the shares, although i thought everything
was set up right.
I had to add encrypted password support for the Win98 boxen on the network. Then I
added the following lines to smb.conf:
encrypt passwords = yes
smbpasswd file = /path/to/smbpasswd
preferred master = yes
donain logons = yes
Those lines basically turn the Samba server into the equivalent to an NT domain
controller. I just had to set the windows networking to log into an NT domain to
authenticate, and all works well now. I spent probably 8 hours this afternoon
reading through the man page for smb.conf, the DOMAIN.txt that comes with the source
tarball and countless daemon restarts before i figured this out. And it's all for
the better because I don't have to put an NT server back up.
Hope this helps....
Dan Pomohaci wrote:
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> I have a Linux server (Debian - slink) which must share files with a
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> bunch of Windows boxes. I've installed Samba on Linux and have made all the
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> modifications (I think) on Windows clients. Now they can see the Linux
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> server but they are not permited to access the files from Linux
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> server.
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> This is my smb.conf file:
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> on Windows side I've made 192.168.1.1 (Linux IP) WINS and DNS server
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> and everything seems OK (par example they can use Netscape to access
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> Internet through the Linux gateway.)
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> Please help me!!! (otherwise they will force me to install Win NT :-(
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