On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 16:14 -0700, Mike Hoy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to set up samba on my laptop so I can share between my windows
> machine and this Ubuntu laptop. Going to be adding a third computer
> soon so I'm trying to get this done right before I build the third. I
> have no experience with networking so I'm sure I'm missing something
> obvious.
>
> In Ubuntu (laptop) I can go to Places > Computer > Network Servers and
> I see Windows Network, then I open that and I can see "HOME". That
> shows Dell-Desktop and Mike-Laptop. I can click on Dell-Desktop and
> that opens a new windows. I try to create a file there and it says:
> Operation not supported by back end.
>
> In windows:
> I go to My Network Places > View Workgroup Computers > Mike-Laptop >
> and that shows:
>
> MyFiles
> PDF
> Printer and faxes
>
> I try to open MyFiles and it asks for username/password, but every
> combination I try doesn't work.
>
> This is the guide I followed.
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202605&highlight=setup+samba+windows+network
>
> The only thing I didn't follow in it was use WINS because it said not
> to if I use dhcp.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> smb.conf attached.
----
windows system...
- enable file sharing on Firewall (using Windows Firewall or something
else?)
- enable sharing on some folder somewhere so you can read from / save
files
to this 'shared' folder
linux system...
- what is output of 'ls -ld /home/samba'
- according to your smb.conf, you have a group named HOME, that doesn't
seem right
- test linux permissions from command line first because this will save
a
bunch of time:
# smbclient -L //SRV1 -U craig
Enter craig's password:
Domain=[AZAPPLE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25b-1.el4_6.5]
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Main File Server)
Software Disk Installer Images
Music Disk Music Files
Macintosh OSX Disk Macintosh OSX Updates
Macintosh Classic Disk Macintosh Classic OS Updates
Linux stuff Disk Linux Updates
Win 2K XP Disk Windows updates for 32 bit
Win 95 98 ME Disk Windows updates for 16 bit
Storage Disk Mail File Storage
netlogon Disk Network Logon Service
officejet Printer officejet
oscar Printer Created by redhat-config-printer 0.6.x
craig Disk Home Directories
Domain=[AZAPPLE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25b-1.el4_6.5]
Server Comment
--------- -------
SRV1 Main File Server
WIN-WORKSTATION
Workgroup Master
--------- -------
AZAPPLE SRV1
Once you can connect as -U $USER, then you should be able to connect
from Windows computer onto Linux computer.
The concept is fairly simple minded, I have a Linux user named 'craig',
I have a samba user named craig. They can have different passwords but
they could be the same.
Linux user...
passwd craig # sets craig password
Same user...
smbpasswd -a craig #adds user craig
smpasswd craig # prompts for password for user craig
# ls -ld /home/craig
drwxr-xr-x 128 craig craig 12288 2008-11-01 16:40 /home/craig
Only the user 'craig' could actually save files to this folder if it
were shared by samba since the group 'craig' doesn't have write
privileges but the 'user' craig does.
Last recommendation - FWIW...
Always start with the official documentation even though it's
voluminous. The simplifications like the one you pointed to is outdated
(this suggestion, socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY
SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 is for 2.4 kernel and is
obsolete), (this suggestion, interfaces = lo, eth0 - seems like a good
idea but may not be what you want at all). Official samba documentation
is at
http://samba.org/samba/docs (see 'Official Howto' and 'By Example'
on left side)
Craig
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