I am a newbie to samba and linux. I configured smb.conf and now I can browse Linux share from NT and windows machines. But when I try to catch NT share trough linux it gives the following message. When browse through Nautilus I can go up to shared directories. From prompt I tried out smbclient as follws and it give the following message. Pl help me.

[root@nilantha samba]# smbclient //internal/slarmy -U nilantha
added interface ip=202.51.141.134 bcast=202.51.141.143 nmask=255.255.255.240
Got a positive name query response from 202.51.141.142 ( 202.51.141.142 202.51.141.141 )
Password:
Domain=[ITWEB] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME


Regards,

Nilantha

try xsmbrowser, da?

get it from this link:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/xsmbrowser/?topic_id=150

you couldn't let us have a copy of your smb.conf file as a starters reference could you. ive been struggling with NT/Linux via Samba for some time and still can't get the ***** thing to work!

either samba could not resolve the system name internal OR it could not find the slarmy share

yup had the same problem.. but after a lot of frustrating tweaks voila! it works now!.. don't even remember how i did it exactly.. just know that i fixed smbd and nmbd services... you might want to check that out too...

Had the same problem ... spent the better part of a day trying to work through it. For me, the error message set me up for failure by leading me down the wrong path looking for a solution. The real underlying problem was directory permissions two directories above in the path.

Be sure the entire path has at least golbal 'read' permissions set!

A quick 'chmod 755 dir' solved the problem for me. Zounds!

-ap

Thanks for you post ,i encounterd the same problem that you said the chmod the dir flag could resolv the issue.And which dir should be chmod the current?or the spcified?
Thanks in advznce!








All you best!

ap,
thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU,

I've been racking my brain over this for the past 2 days: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...68#post6335168

and your post here solved my problem.
Thanks,
-BassKozz

OMG, this issue was killing me until i saw this thread!

I had similar problem and it was killing me for almost a week. Thanks to you "alpartis" now that those stressful days are finally over.

I had similar problem : NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME
and after couple of hours I have found that my path was incorrect due Caps letters, keep in mind paths name should be case sensitive even if you are browsing the windows folders in short the administrive share of the entire partion c should be accessed

//xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/C$

not

//xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/c$

Resolution
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Hello everyone this error occurs due the share name given in the smb.conf file.

If you are trying to share a folder called "ambi_test", then in the configuration file the entries should as below.

[ambi_test] //THIS IS THE PART FOR THIS ERROR USUALLY AND ALSO THIS IS CASE SENSITIVE

comment = Ambi Share folder
writable = yes
create mode = 0770
directory mode = 0770
share modes = yes
guest ok = no // guest not allowed


*******Thank me if your issue is resolved****************

Can someone please give step by step instructions on how to solve this problem with permissions? I am having the same problem but not sure how to solve the problem

Hello,

I was faced with this problem too, but the cause was different. On RedHat / Fedora products, SELinux is enabled and enforced by default. Disabling it solved this issue (/etc/sysconfig/selinux).

Regards

im also having the same problem as: tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME
when i tried to browse the shared samba directory.

the directry is shared in this way
[nfshare]
comment = nfsshared directory with samba
path = /nfstest
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
write list = john smith
valid users = john smith
hosts allow = 192.168.4.
hosts deny = 192.168.4.50

I did boolean on as :

[root@station51 ~]# getsebool -a |grep samba
samba_domain_controller --> off
samba_enable_home_dirs --> on
samba_export_all_ro --> on
samba_export_all_rw --> on
samba_share_nfs --> on
use_samba_home_dirs --> off
virt_use_samba --> off

what is the problem, im getting alot confusion.
plz help me out of this. This deny host from samba is correct? is there any other method to deny any specified host in samba.


thank you