I have installed Fedora Core 5 with Samba. I can see the shares from my windose boxes and when I try to connect to the share it prompts me for my user and password, I enter the user and password I have set up on linux but it just prompts me again. In the /var/log/samba log file for the remote machine it says I do not have permission to connect to the directory.

The user I am suppling is the owner of that directory.
I did do the smbpasswd to set the password for the user and the user is a valid linux user as I have logged onto the linux box with it.
I would like it to do the authentication on the linux box. I have configured it to be a standalone server with user authentication.

Any idea as to what could be wrong.

Did you set in the /etc/samba/smb.conf to except encryted passwords?
If not unrem that line and restart the samba service.

Brian1

The accept encrypted passwords is set.

My config file is as follows:

[global]
workgroup = HOME.NET
server string = FileServer
netbios name = fileserver
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
printcap name = /etc/printcap
local master = yes
preferred master = yes
os level = 65
dns proxy = No
ldap ssl = no
hosts allow = 192.168.0., 192.168.1., 192.168.2., 127.
cups options = raw

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
browseable = No

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = Yes
browseable = No

[helen]
comment = Helen's Documents
path = /documents/helen
valid users = helen, hendry
write list = helen, hendry
read only = No

[hendry]
comment = Hendry't Documents
path = /documents/hendry
valid users = hendry, helen, root, AcidDragon
write list = helen, hendry
read only = No


I don't have a domain controller nor do I want one. I want it to take the user i pass it when trying to connect and validate it agains linux /etc/passwd.

Hi,
Whether the directory /documents/helen and /documents/hendry are owned by the those users.

Cheers,

(K.BASKAR)

yes, /documents/helen is own by helen, and /documents/hendry is own by hendry

Can you connect to the samba share from the server itself?
Is there a firewall active? Disable firewall and selinux.
Use the command line on the windows box to connect and post the errors.

Brian1

Hi,
How about the users profile, how it has been set.

cheers,

(K.BASKAR)

Disabled selinux and now it works.

Thanks for all your input.

aciddragon said:
I have installed Fedora Core 5 with Samba. I can see the shares from my windose boxes and when I try to connect to the share it prompts me for my user and password,


if i read this correctly, this is a problem with the samba-client on linux, not the samba server.