help with samba

bobgau · 11-11-2006, 08:50 AM

Greetings all..my first post. very little expererience with linux. recent install of ubuntu 6.06 lts and some growing pains are evident.marked samba for download and applied change in syn package manager, seemed to download okay but can't find it. Used fedora core in the past and had no problem finding samba, what am i doing wrong?? Any advice would be appreciated.
Bob

Micro420 · 11-12-2006, 12:05 PM

Samba should already be running in the background. You're all set to go! Just start editing the /etc/samba/smb.conf file. Remember to restart the samba service after making changes!

bobgau · 11-12-2006, 01:50 PM

Thanks Micro420

Have found samba and will try editing the smb.conf file.

Bob

Xeratul · 11-12-2006, 02:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bobgau

Thanks Micro420

Have found samba and will try editing the smb.conf file.

Bob

to restart it:
/etc/init.d/samba restart

to have a working example with windows98:http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=458914

there is a lot of nfo in this forum

Cheers

bobgau · 11-12-2006, 06:57 PM

I now can see the login from my windows machine but it will not accept my username or password. I am thinking that they need to be set in smb.conf or do you send them from the terminal. Have full access to all drives on the windows machine, from the linux machine, but nothing looking from windows to the linux box other than the login. Thanks..
Bob

Xeratul · 11-17-2006, 06:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bobgau

I now can see the login from my windows machine but it will not accept my username or password. I am thinking that they need to be set in smb.conf or do you send them from the terminal. Have full access to all drives on the windows machine, from the linux machine, but nothing looking from windows to the linux box other than the login. Thanks..
Bob

did you do :
smbpasswd -a username

bobgau · 11-24-2006, 11:14 AM

Thanks for the reply, been away. Have not tried that but will. thanks again..
Bob

Xeratul · 11-25-2006, 04:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bobgau

Thanks for the reply, been away. Have not tried that but will. thanks again..
Bob

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=458914
have too a look there