Hi all,

Have RH-9 on a machine, samba running, and a Win-XP machine that tries to mount ptshare. In the network neighborhood on the XP machine I see workgroup MSHOME and RHLinux (my RH machine) under it, but get a message about privs: "\\RHLinux is not accessible. You might not have permissions to use this network resource. Contact the system administrator blablabla"

I can ping the both machines from each other. When I try
net use x: \\192.168.1.103\ptshare it actually prompts me for a user and password but then get error 53 on the XP.

On the linux box I can do: smbclient //192.168.1.103/ptshare then hit enter on the password prompt, and it puts me on the smb: /> prompt and I can do e.g. ls which shows a file that sits in /home/peter/ptshare, so that seems to work.

Anybody any suggestions why the XP machine is having trouble?

Here's my smb.conf.

[global]
workgroup = MSHOME
server string = Samba Server on RedHat Linux
hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.2. 127.
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
printing = cups
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 0
security = share
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
unix password sync = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*

pam password change = yes
obey pam restrictions = yes
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
dns proxy = no
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writable = yes
valid users = %S
create mode = 0664
directory mode = 0775
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
guest ok = no
writable = no
printable = yes
[tmp]
comment = Temporary file space
path = /tmp
read only = no
public = yes
[ptshare]
comment = Peter's Home
path = /home/peter/Share
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no

Peter,

From reading your message I suspect the problem is in your smb.conf file. I'm at work right now so I can't compare yours to mine. I only noticed one thing different so far. Try adding "readonly=no" under [ptshare]. Have you set up a samba user account? Here is the site I used to set up samba:
http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/using_samba/ch02_04.html
Funny thing though, when I was running rh8 I had to edit this file (that's why I'm familar with it), but when I did a clean install of rh9 I didn't have to touch that file. I just went to the start menu (redhat icon bottom left corner), I chose system settings --> server settings and chose samba. This utility with a simple gui popped up and allowed me to create a user account and set up shares. Have you tried this utility yet?

Check this site out... http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/samba-pdc.html ; helped me out a lot. Hopefully, you have XP Pro...