Network NAS progress

ian Stockdale · 10-11-2007, 03:37 AM

I finally worked out how to install Samba, so now (don't quite know how) my Linux box can see the windows network and can access the windows boxes but I can't log onto the Linux NAS from the windows side, password and user name access denied?
Also I cant log onto the NAS through the Linux box, get the same access denied message.
I wanted to set up a simple NAS with the option of also using the box as a PC for Internet access. The Internet access was easy but the networking not quite so.........so I ran 'Freenas' from a CD and after an hour I have my NAS but without the luxury of 'other tasks'. I know it can be done but how?

guzzi · 10-11-2007, 08:28 PM

What distro are you running on the NAS box? And, to access the NAS box from windows, are you using Putty? And, are you assigned as a user on the NAS box, and if so, are you using ssh to access it from your other Linux box?

ian Stockdale · 10-12-2007, 03:39 AM

Distro? Ubuntu 7.04, not using putty and not quite sure if I'm assigned as a user although in windows terms I think I'm the administrator, system log on name and password? Don't think I'm usind SSH either. Not a lot of use really!

billymayday · 10-12-2007, 03:51 AM

Did you add any samba users (no, it doesn't use linux accounts) using smbpasswd (smbpasswd -a username password)

ian Stockdale · 10-12-2007, 04:27 AM

Thanks, I haven't created a password or anything through SAMBA, she's running FREENAS at the moment but I'll give that a try over lunchtime. I guess I just enter (smbpasswd -a username password)in the terminal?

billymayday · 10-12-2007, 04:32 AM

That should do it

ian Stockdale · 10-12-2007, 07:11 AM

I did SMBPASSWD I gat a prompt for old then new password and confirm BUT this resulted in 'could not connect to machine 127.0.0.1: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE'

billymayday · 10-12-2007, 05:42 PM

Did you get this error as a result of executing the smbpasswd command or when you tried to connect after?

If the former, what do you have in lmhosts (for me /etc/samba/lmhosts). Should be something like

127.0.0.1 localhost

Otehrwise, maybe http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...failure-67766/ will help

If you tried to connect from Windows, my vague memory tells me the user it tries to connect with from a Windows box is machine_name\username, and you can fix this by specifying the user t connect as at mapping time