I have had no luck getting samba to work between two linux machines. I have a small network with two lunux boxes, and a hand full of NT/W2K/XP machines.

I have no problem what so ever with the windows machines connecting to the samba server. I can see the files in the directories, and the access is set so that I can read and write to them without any problems.

I just can't seem to get it to work well with the linux box. I have added into my /etc/fstab file:
/192.168.5.100/share /mnt/share smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.pixle.matt,sync 0 0

this was generated with the MCC app. so I would assume it should work some what. If I type in from a terminal: mount -t smbfs //192.168.5.100/share /mnt/share it does mount, but all the files are set to root/root, and the write access for anyone else is just read. This makes writing to the files difficult.

All the machines are just peer to peer networked. they currently do not have any domain controller for centeralized user accounts and passwords. If I was to do this I would like it on the Mandriva linux box. Is this a good idea, and will it help with getting samba to work? What would you recomend for the controler? Would I setup samba to act as a controller, and how do you configure linux to work with this?

Any suggestions into what direction to go is much appreciated.

I have several linux boxes (they seem to be breeding). I do not use samba. As I understand it, samba is for networking with windows computers.

linux------>samba------>samba------>linux is more complex than:

linux------>------linux


You can still use samba to link to your windows computers, but just use linux to network the linux ones. Of course, this being linux, you can have several things going on at once.

To network linux computers, it is very easy just to use ssh and nfs. Try putting "nfs howto" & "ssh howto" into google and following the first links.

nfs is probably the easiest to set up and is just for sharing files, but ssh is a lot of fun, extremely neat and saves running between computers.

HTH

Samba works Linux to Linux just fine, I use it all the time between several pcs here at home and my home server. The most common mistake is not telling Linux the IPs of the other pc's hostnames. I have more info on my website for Samba.

http://roofrabbit.com

Well, I usually solved this using the webmin package for every computer.

In the "servers" section you can configure (in a really easy way) the samba shares and it's permissions, etc.

May be you should give it a try.

Following the instructions from http://roofrabbit.com I have sort of gotten the samba to work. I now have a share that can be browsed from windows and loads into linux. However, it sets all the files to root/root for ownership and restricts writing to the share for everyone else. This is only true for linux. Windows works just fine.

I did run into a problem with the swat package. It says it loaded correctly, but when I try to access it, I get the error message "the connection was refused when attempting to conenect to 127.0.0.1:901" I don't know what is up with that, but I added the users using the command line smbpasswd -a <user name>

I don't know what I need to change onto the linux workstations to get this to work properly? I will paste a copy of my smb.conf file (as it;s on another machine) later.

Any help is appreciated as I want to get to the bottom of this.

mjm

update: this is my smb.conf file


#======================= Global Settings =====================================
[global]

workgroup = IMAGE

server string = Samba Server %v

# 2. Printing Options:

printcap name = cups
load printers = yes
printcap cache time = 60
printing = cups
printer admin = @adm

# 3. Logging Options:

log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50

# 4. Security and Domain Membership Options:

hosts allow = 192.168.5. 127.
map to guest = bad user
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd

# 5. Browser Control and Networking Options:

socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
domain master = yes
preferred master = yes

# 6. Domain Control Options:

domain logons = yes

#============================ Share Definitions ==============================
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = yes
writable = yes

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
# to allow user 'guest account' to print.
guest ok = yes
writable = no
printable = yes
create mode = 0700

print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers.
use client driver = yes

[print$]
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
browseable = yes
write list = @adm root
guest ok = yes
inherit permissions = yes
# Settings suitable for Winbind:
# write list = @"Domain Admins" root
# force group = +@"Domain Admins"

[pdf-gen]
path = /var/tmp
guest ok = No
printable = Yes
comment = PDF Generator (only valid users)
printing = bsd
#print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf file path win_path recipient IP &
print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf "%s" "%H" "//%L/%u" "%m" "%I" "%J" &
lpq command = /bin/true

[public]
comment = Public Stuff
path = /home/samba31/public
public = yes
browseable = yes
writable = yes