Hello, I am a beginner to Samba and I RTFMd carefully but cannot get started.
I want to access my user account "mark" home directory on Linux, with the same account name on Windows 8. The user "mark" has the same password on Linux and Windows 8. In addition I did this on Linux >smbpasswd -a mark and gave the same password. Following the manuals on samba website I edited the samba configuration smb.conf file so: [global] hosts allow = ALL client signing = no # log files split per-machine: log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m # maximum size of 50KB per log file, then rotate: max log size = 50 security = user [homes] valid users = %S read only = No and successfully started the samba service. I can then see "mark" share on that Linux machine from Windows, I can map it to a drive letter in Windows Explorer, and I also see this: [root@v64-sw-dev003-mark /]# smbstatus Samba version 3.6.12-1.fc17 PID Username Group Machine ------------------------------------------------------------------- 14678 mark mark mark-pc (192.168.221.76) Service pid machine Connected at ------------------------------------------------------- mark 14678 mark-pc Fri Jun 28 15:56:39 2013 No locked files This all looks very good to me, as Samba server sees my client with the correct username, Windows machine name and IP address. YET, when I actually try to double-click on the share in the Windows Explorer, I get an error dialog: Windows cannot access \\192.168.221.32\mark You do not have permission to access \\192.168.221.32\mark\. Contact your network administrator to request access. 192.168.221.32 is the Linux machine address. Please, what am I doing wrong?? Thank you, Mark -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba