On Saturday 29 March 2003 17:25, David E. Meiser wrote: > I am attempting to build a media server, using samba to transfer files > to the media server from my Windows XP box and am unable to logon to the > media server. I am able to get to the media server and view the open > shares, but I'm unable to get to the shared files themselves (let alone > write to the directory). When trying to access the folder, I get a > login box that has "hostname\username" locked as the username. I'm > unable to find anything that might have caused this. Below is the > contents of my smb.conf. Any help would be appreciated.
I just put up a Samba file server this weekend on a Debian SPARC box. I have a W98 and Wme clients. I am a Samba newbie. I put: security = user which is the default. In the globals section I put in: invalid users = root valid users = laptop, W98 I created a share: [netdisk0] path = /export/samba/netdisk0 guest ok = yes writeable = yes On the SPARC box I did: 1. adduser for laptop and W98 2. smbpasswd -a laptop 3. smbapasswd - a W98 4. kill -SIGHUP <pid of smbd> I restarted laptop and W98. When I clicked the Network Neighborhood icons I found the SPARC box. In the SPARC box icon i found netdisk0. I didn't have much success with the security = share option. I kept being asked for a password when I tried to access the shared resource. Huh??? I found that restarting the windoze boxes often fixed things when behavior got stupid. YMMV because you are using XP. HTH, -- Mike M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
