*throttles Samba*

Celettu · 07-11-2004, 10:55 AM

Got linux as I want it to have...except the network. You can quote me on this...Samba is a shitty piece of software. I mean, WHEN is somebody going to develop a decent GUI for that? Messing around in the conf files without knowing very well what you're doing ALWAYS makes things worse, the howto's and the mans are simply incomprehensible...and nothing, nothing anyone ever suggested to me ever worked. Ever.

Sorry, but windows has it right when it comes to easy amateur home networks: fill in hostname here, workgroup name there, rightclick everything you want to share, and that's it, you're done.

Bleh. In an attempt to provide printer sharing I went from a situation where in the network browser both PCs (SuSe and WIn2K) showed up, to one where only the WInbox showed up, to one where the workgroup is gone.

Give me something to rightclick, dammit!

San

Mathieu · 07-11-2004, 02:14 PM

Quote:

Sorry, but windows has it right when it comes to easy amateur home networks: fill in hostname here, workgroup name there, rightclick everything you want to share, and that's it, you're done.

Have you read the free online book Using Samba, 2nd Edition
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/

Here is a sample smb.conf

Code:

#======================= Global Settings =====================================
[global]
   workgroup = TUX-NET

   os level = 34
   local master = Yes
   preferred master = Yes
   wins support = Yes
   dns proxy = No

   unix extensions = Yes
   encrypt passwords = Yes
   map to guest = Bad User

# Printing
   printing = CUPS
   printcap name = CUPS
   load printers = yes

# Logging
   log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
   max log size = 1000

#============================ Share Definitions ==============================
[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   valid users = %S
   browseable = No
   read only = No
   create mask = 0640
   directory mask = 0750

[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   path = /var/tmp
   printable = Yes
   create mask = 0600
   browseable = Yes
   guest ok = Yes

Assuming you configured the printers correctly, you are using CUPS and you have created Linux and Samba users.

Now for the counter-rant:
Believe me, there is alot more you can do with Samba than you can with windows.
And as for the where the workgroup is gone, yes Samba can take over the network (WINS) and block all windows PC from seing everything else.
It is actually quite fun to do on an all windows network.

hehe

I too was once like you, but the more I learn about Linux, the more I came to accepted that the plain text (no GUI) configuration files was a much better concept.
Yet to this day, there are some parts I still prefer a GUI, but configuration files are a must ... To Hell with the rightclick.

Celettu · 07-11-2004, 02:33 PM

I read the book, and things start going wrong in chapter 2 "Testing the samba daemons".

After manually starting them I try

smbclient -U% -L localhost

and I get

Error connecting to 127.0.0.1 (Connection refused)
Connection to localhost failed

Looking in swat, I see that smbd and nmbd aren't started at all. Can't get them to either.

San

Mathieu · 07-12-2004, 11:19 AM

By manually, you mean you used these commands

Code:

/etc/init.d/nmb restart
/etc/init.d/smb restart

There may be an error in the configuration file. As root, type: testparm
This will analyse the smb.conf file and dump the full configuration.