Dale, thank you for your help! However... I had already checked all the things you are asking. Permissions are good, I tried without this parameter, and there is not any error indication in the logs. Still the same problem.
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Dale Schroeder < d...@briannassaladdressing.com> wrote: > Mark, > > First verify that the posix permissions are good for your home directory: > ls -lA /home/mark > If those are good, then I would try removing the hosts allow parameter in > [global]. > If that doesn't work, checking the Samba logs is always a good idea. > > Dale > > > On 06/28/2013 6:03 PM, Mark Galeck wrote: > >> 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
