Samba

bostonantifan · 03-03-2007, 01:12 PM

I've just set up Samba on Fedora 6 on my laptop. I've set up a user account, and a shared directory. When I go into Network Neighborhood on my Windows 2000 machine, under "computers near me", I see a computer listed as 'HOST', with the description 'Vnet Samba Server' (The name I gave the server on the Linux machine). When I click on it, I get a list of 2 directories, the one I set up, and the home directories for peterv (the guest account), and I see a line for printers. When I double click on the ccode directory, I get the message "\\Host\ccode" is not accessible. The network name cannot be found. I'm very new to Linux and Samba, but I've searched the boards, and didn't find anything I considered similar to this problem. Can anyone help me out with this? I'd really appreciate it.
Peter V.

TylerD75 · 03-04-2007, 01:19 AM

Hmm... What user owns the ccode folder (on the samba server)?
Let's say the owner is "coder", and he is part of the group "users".

Then go to share definition in /etc/samba/smb.conf
Write it like the following:

Code:

[ccode]
  comment = C-Code
  path = /home/ccode ;or where ever it's located
  force user = coder ;Or whatever user owns/has write access to the folder
  force group = users ;or some other group with access to the folder
  public = yes
  writable = yes
  printable = no
  create mask = 0765

The above will make the folder public, which means anyone on your lan can access it!!! (NOT VERY SAFE, unless you trust your LAN)
It will also force the user "coder" and group "users" to own all new files created over the network.

I noticed that you accessed the shares as guest (which means no login), so I'm assuming guest access from your LAN is no problem.

And don't forget to restart samba (/etc/init.d/samba restart).