Samba problems
Hey everyone, i am fairly inexperienced and am trying to set up samba so that my windows pc's can access a specific folder on my linux machine. So far, it seems that the printer sharing works, but the folder sharing does not. Here is my smb.conf file:
[global] ; General server settings netbios name = FamilyServer server string = workgroup = MSHOME announce version = 5.0 socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 passdb backend = tdbsam security = user null passwords = true username map = /etc/samba/smbusers name resolve order = hosts wins bcast wins support = no printing = CUPS printcap name = CUPS syslog = 1 syslog only = yes ; NOTE: If you need access to the user home directories uncomment the ; lines below and adjust the settings to your hearts content. ;[homes] ;valid users = %S ;create mode = 0600 ;directory mode = 0755 ;browseable = no ;read only = no ;veto files = /*.{*}/.*/mail/bin/ ; NOTE: Only needed if you run samba as a primary domain controller. ; Not needed as this config doesn't cover that matter. ;[netlogon] ;path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon ;admin users = Administrator ;valid users = %U ;read only = no ; NOTE: Again - only needed if you're running a primary domain controller. ;[Profiles] ;path = /var/lib/samba/profiles ;valid users = %U ;create mode = 0600 ;directory mode = 0700 ;writeable = yes ;browseable = no ; NOTE: Inside this place you may build a printer driver repository for ; Windows - I'll cover this topic in another HOWTO. [print$] path = /var/lib/samba/printers browseable = yes guest ok = yes read only = yes write list = root create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 [printers] path = /tmp printable = yes guest ok = yes browseable = no ; Uncomment if you need to share your CD-/DVD-ROM Drive ;[DVD-ROM Drive] ;path = /media/cdrom ;browseable = yes ;read only = yes ;guest ok = yes [MyFiles] path = /home/share browseable = yes read only = no guest ok = no create mask = 0644 directory mask = 0755 force user = nicolas force group = nicolas I have added myself as user, and another (to test on a windows xp comp - with no password). Thanks for the help! |
I'm not sure why you used "force user" and "force group" both equal to nicolas. Do you have a group named nicolas?
Make sure you add your user to the host machine and then with smbpasswd to samba. If you don't care about sharing your printers with guest ok=yes, you could add that to your folder share too. If you want access to YOUR home files, uncomment the section where it allows that in [homes] I presume you've studied the excellent documentation at www.samba.org Hope that helps; don't forget you have to restart samba after making any changes to smb.conf and that you should run testparm first. |
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