ARRRRGGGGHHH

Did a search on Google and this forum for the problem, and I am stuck.

SCENARIO: Samba on RH9, Windows XP home, local workgroup called MSHOME. Local internal 192 network.

I can ping the RH9 box from the Windows XP box.

Firewall is turned off at RH for testing.

Windows XP keeps getting error "Account is not authorized to log in from this station."
This occurs when I try to map a drive. or when I try to run from the Windows command line (e.g., \\<RH9-IP-address>)

It never prompts me for a user name or password, which could be a sign of the root cause?

My smb.conf file is the default vanilla except for the following:


workgroup = MSHOME
server string = Samba Server
hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127.
security = user

[public]
path = /var/www/html
public = yes
only guest = yes
writable = yes
printable = no

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writable = yes
valid users = %S
create mode = 0664
directory mode = 0775

map to guest = bad user




My smbusers file looks like this:


# Unix_name = SMB_name1 SMB_name2 ...
root = administrator admin
nobody = guest pcguest smbguest
mwilliams = Mike Williams




My smbpasswd file looks weird (is this a hashed password?)

mwilliams:500:8ADB0D4A3E947575B79AE2610DD89D4C:70194D4D60BE25C34C037CA102655656:[UX ]:LCT-4134EA5C:



Firewall is OFF on the RH9 box and the Windows XP box. I cannot see the RH9 box in the MSHOME workgroup on the Windows XP box.

IP chains disabled.

I have successfully stopped and restarted the SMB and NMB services after each change to the conf and user files.


One GOOGLE clue was to allow unencrypted passwords on XP box by changing the setting using gpedit.msc Of course, cannot get to any such setting on XP home. so I doubt that it matters.

Thanks.

plunday@nc.rr.com

Try the following smb.conf (it works for me, but it is absolutely evil in the security sense - anyone can access it, the password is empty, and it shares /). See if it works and tinker with it to suit your needs.


[global]
workgroup = MSHOME
wins support = yes
encrypt passwords = yes
browsable = yes
security = share

[root]
path = /
read only = yes
guest ok = yes
public = yes

For more information, Samba has very complete html documentation for deploying it. You can either download the samba sources and built it to get the documentation or get it somewhere else.

Nice job, bobwall! I had "Browsable" set to "NO" and I changed it as per your email.

So now, on the Windows XP box I now get an NT challenge/response login window, asking for my user name and password. So this is where it gets confusing when I am trying to edit the smbuser file directly, so I want to use the GUI to set user names and passwords.

But now I have another problem....I cannot get SERVER SETTINGS -> SAMBA SERVER to bring up the samba configuration window. Nothing happens at all. This GUI config tool worked fine earlier. Any ideas on how to get the GUI tool running again?

Here is the output when I try to run the Samba Server Config tool from a command line...


[root@localhost /]# redhat-config-samba
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/redhat-config-samba/redhat-config-samba.py", line 20, in ?
mainWindow.MainWindow(debug_flag)
File "/usr/share/redhat-config-samba/mainWindow.py", line 58, in __init__
self.samba_data = sambaParser.SambaParser(self)
File "/usr/share/redhat-config-samba/sambaParser.py", line 24, in __init__
self.parseFile()
File "/usr/share/redhat-config-samba/sambaParser.py", line 55, in parseFile
token = self.createToken(line)
File "/usr/share/redhat-config-samba/sambaParser.py", line 127, in createToken token = sambaToken.SambaToken(sambaToken.SambaToken.SAMBA_TOKEN_KEYVAL, (name, value), self.parent)
File "/usr/share/redhat-config-samba/sambaToken.py", line 20, in __init__
raise AttributeError, value
AttributeError: ('only guest', 'yes')


plunday@nc.rr.com

Sorry, I don't use Redhat nor do I use samba gui configuration tools. Try using the SWAT gui configuration tool that is included with samba. See http://www.faqs.org/docs/samba/ch02.html (the section on enabling SWAT) for details. I think KDE also has a Samba configuration tool.
Happy hacking