Okay i can see all my samba shares on all my windows xp computers
but for some werid reason when i try to login i cant
it asks for a username and password i supply it but i cant login
and even weirder by stopping and starting samba i eventually was allowed to login with one account but i couldnt login with any others
and then it went back to not letting me login at all.

I have no clue just getting really upset samba is so damb tought to configure
any help would be greatly appreciated on getting
a mandrake 10 fileserver running to allow windowsxp, me, 98, nt,2000 access
i dont need it to do anything other than share folders to certain users

i cant show you my samba config if you need

I had this trouble myself and it took me a little while to figure out the problems, but here are the main issues:

Does the user account have rights to the shared directory? Usually done by group permissions, i.e. Owner = root, Group = users

Does the group have rwx rights to the shared directory? x is needed to traverse directories.

Do you have an smbusers file and an smbpasswd file? Are they referenced in the smb.conf? e.g.

smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers

Are the entries in the smbusers correct? I find it easiest to enter in the following manner:

linuxusername = "windowsusername"

i.e. I use double quotes to ensure that all characters are valid since windows will allow spaces in the name.

Is the smbpasswd file correct? Remove existing entries with the command:

smbpasswd -x linuxusername

Then re-add them with:

smbpasswd -a linuxusername

and fill in the WINDOWS password when prompted.

Hope that helps.

Carl.

Well i will give it a try tomarrow when i setup up a server for a small company hope it goes well.

Thanks