well i havent tried it yet....ive been busy configuring dual booting...i was just wondering is smbpasswd a blank file? or do i have to put some sort of conf stuff in it?

You need to do an smbpasswd -a <username> to add a user to it. To be honest I haven't installed samba from source. I have always installed it when installing the OS.

ok i did that...and i added a user...now the problem is still the same when i try to map it and i type in roofy and password it changes the login name to HORIZON\roofy (horizon is the name of the windows machine, GIR is the name of server, and MSHOME is the workgroup)...what should i put as login?

Are you using XP pro or home? Also can you post your smb.conf file?

xp pro, and heres my smb.conf

Did you set the local file permissions on / to allow the local user chris to access / ? By the way this is not a good Idea. make a directory named /home/data and share that.

Actually, I wasn't sure if you could share /, so I added it to my smb.conf file, restarted samba and it does work.

Anyway, enough struggling on this. I will show you how I add users and I will post my smb.conf file here to show you how mine is configured.

Adding users;
create linux user first
/usr/sbin/useradd username
/usr/bin/userpasswd username

then add the linux user to samba
smbadduser username:username

In my next post, I will put up my smb.conf file and you can use it after you modify a couple things like workgroup and server........

# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
# smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
# here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options (perhaps too
# many!) most of which are not shown in this example
#
# Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash)
# is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a #
# for commentry and a ; for parts of the config file that you
# may wish to enable
#
# NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command "testparm"
# to check that you have not many any basic syntactic errors.
#
#======================= Global Settings =====================================
[global]

# workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name
workgroup = Work

# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field
server string = Server

# This option is important for security. It allows you to restrict
# connections to machines which are on your local network. The
# following example restricts access to two C class networks and
# the "loopback" interface. For more examples of the syntax see
# the smb.conf man page
#hosts allow = 10.10. 10.20. 127.

# if you want to automatically load your printer list rather
# than setting them up individually then you'll need this
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes

# It should not be necessary to spell out the print system type unless
# yours is non-standard. Currently supported print systems include:
# bsd, sysv, plp, lprng, aix, hpux, qnx
printing = bsd

# Uncomment this if you want a guest account, you must add this to /etc/passwd
# otherwise the user "nobody" is used
# guest account = samba

# this tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine
# that connects
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

# Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb).
max log size = 50

# Security mode. Most people will want user level security. See
# security_level.txt for details.
security = user
# Use password server option only with security = server
; password server =

# Password Level allows matching of _n_ characters of the password for
# all combinations of upper and lower case.
; password level = 8
; username level = 8

# You may wish to use password encryption. Please read
# ENCRYPTION.txt, Win95.txt and WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation.
# Do not enable this option unless you have read those documents
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd

# The following are needed to allow password changing from Windows to
# update the Linux sytsem password also.
# NOTE: Use these with 'encrypt passwords' and 'smb passwd file' above.
# NOTE2: You do NOT need these to allow workstations to change only
# the encrypted SMB passwords. They allow the Unix password
# to be kept in sync with the SMB password.
unix password sync = no
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*

# Unix users can map to different SMB User names
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers

# Using the following line enables you to customise your configuration
# on a per machine basis. The %m gets replaced with the netbios name
# of the machine that is connecting
# include = /etc/samba/smb.conf.%m

# Most people will find that this option gives better performance.
# See speed.txt and the manual pages for details
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192

# Configure Samba to use multiple interfaces
# If you have multiple network interfaces then you must list them
# here. See the man page for details.
; interfaces = 192.168.12.2/24 192.168.13.2/24

# Configure remote browse list synchronisation here
# request announcement to, or browse list sync from:
# a specific host or from / to a whole subnet (see below)
#remote browse sync = 10.20.1.1
# Cause this host to announce itself to local subnets here
#remote announce = 10.20.1.1

# Browser Control Options:
# set local master to no if you don't want Samba to become a master
# browser on your network. Otherwise the normal election rules apply
local master = yes

# OS Level determines the precedence of this server in master browser
# elections. The default value should be reasonable
os level = 40

# Domain Master specifies Samba to be the Domain Master Browser. This
# allows Samba to collate browse lists between subnets. Don't use this
# if you already have a Windows NT domain controller doing this job
domain master = yes

# Preferred Master causes Samba to force a local browser election on startup
# and gives it a slightly higher chance of winning the election
preferred master = yes

# Use only if you have an NT server on your network that has been
# configured at install time to be a primary domain controller.
; domain controller =

# Enable this if you want Samba to be a domain logon server for
# Windows95 workstations.
domain logons = yes

# if you enable domain logons then you may want a per-machine or
# per user logon script
# run a specific logon batch file per workstation (machine)
logon script = logon.bat
# run a specific logon batch file per username
;logon script = logon.bat

# Where to store roving profiles (only for Win95 and WinNT)
# %L substitutes for this servers netbios name, %U is username
# You must uncomment the [Profiles] share below
logon home = \\%N\%U

# All NetBIOS names must be resolved to IP Addresses
# 'Name Resolve Order' allows the named resolution mechanism to be specified
# the default order is "host lmhosts wins bcast". "host" means use the unix
# system gethostbyname() function call that will use either /etc/hosts OR
# DNS or NIS depending on the settings of /etc/host.config, /etc/nsswitch.conf
# and the /etc/resolv.conf file. "host" therefore is system configuration
# dependant. This parameter is most often of use to prevent DNS lookups
# in order to resolve NetBIOS names to IP Addresses. Use with care!
# The example below excludes use of name resolution for machines that are NOT
# on the local network segment
# - OR - are not deliberately to be known via lmhosts or via WINS.
name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast

# Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:
# WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable it's WINS Server
wins support = no

# WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client
# Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both
; wins server = w.x.y.z

# WINS Proxy - Tells Samba to answer name resolution queries on
# behalf of a non WINS capable client, for this to work there must be
# at least one WINS Server on the network. The default is NO.
wins proxy = yes

# DNS Proxy - tells Samba whether or not to try to resolve NetBIOS names
# via DNS nslookups. The built-in default for versions 1.9.17 is yes,
# this has been changed in version 1.9.18 to no.
dns proxy = yes

# Case Preservation can be handy - system default is _no_
# NOTE: These can be set on a per share basis
preserve case = yes
short preserve case = yes
# Default case is normally upper case for all DOS files
; default case = lower
# Be very careful with case sensitivity - it can break things!
; case sensitive = no

#============================ Share Definitions ==============================
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writable = yes

[Profiles]
path = /%G/%U/.profile
writable = yes
browseable = no
guest ok = yes
directory mask = 0755
create mask = 0755
read only = no

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
guest ok = no
writable = no
printable = yes


[music]
comment = Music Share Directory
path = /home/samba/music
valid users= glenna, kenny
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
browseable = yes


[accounting]
comment = Acounting
path = /home/samba/accounting
valid users= glenna, kenny
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
browseable = yes

[Shared]
path = /home/samba/share
read only = No
create mask = 0666
directory mask = 0777
guest only = Yes
guest ok = Yes

[Linux]
comment = Linux
path = /
valid users= glenna, kenny
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
browseable = yes

well im trying to get in as root

Like tangle said above, it is not a good idea to log in as root. However, as you can see from the last area of my conf file, you can make your intire drive viewable. In order to make it read, write and exe, you will need to chmod everything to 777 which is even a worse idea I am not sure that I know what you are trying to do here. I thought that you just wanted to get your samba server up and running.

Let me know so I can help you from here.

Regards

well i just wanted windows to see my entire linux drive to can i transfter stuff in and out as oposed to ftp

So are you cool now? Is it working the way that you want?

no i still cant login....as i said it changes the login to HORIZON\root i dunno why it adds my computer name b4 the login

Did you replace your smb.conf file with the one that I posted and did you add the users like I showed you?

If you did, you need to make sure that you restart samba so the new setting take affect.

yes i replaced the smb.conf with one you gave me, im going to add the users now