running smbclient from root account doesn't work

damgar · 01-02-2010, 02:50 PM

I reinstalled Slackware lastnight and was configuring Samba today and when I tested the config (I had just copied over my working smb.conf) I kept getting an NT_LOGON error when I run

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smbclient -l MYSERVER

from the root account after entering root's password.

I can log in through konqueror if I pass the credentials of the only user defined in smb.conf after I'd run smbpasswd for that user, and if I bring up a full terminal session for that user smbclient works fine, but it seems odd that root can't access the shares on the machine. I may have just never noticed this before because I usually test from a user account, but is this normal since I specifically only define one user where samba is concerned?

I'm mainly asking because I was getting some unexpected write errors last night while I was installing the multilib libraries for Slack64 as root and I'm trying to verify everything.

xode · 01-03-2010, 12:25 AM

What does your smb.conf file look like?

damgar · 01-03-2010, 11:39 AM

This is smb.conf with all the comments and printer specific lines removed.

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[global] 
    workgroup = workgroup 
    netbios name = dtest 
    server string = Samba Server %v 
    printcap cache time = 6 
    printing = cups 
    hosts allow = 192.168.1. 127. 
    security = user 
 
[DATA] 
    path = /mnt/data/ 
    comment = DATA 
    browseable = yes 
    writable = yes 
    admin users = dtest 
    valid users = dtest 
    inherit permissions = yes 
    username = dtest 
    hosts allow = 192.168.1.101 192.168.1.102 192.168.1.104 DLIN DTEST DELL

My real question is even thought root is never defined for samba, is it normal for root to be denied access to the samba shares?