I am having trouble with samba.

I moved from Redhat 9 to Mandrake 9.2 and I am having trouble with things that just worked in Redhat.

I installed and configured Samba and SWAT. I have my shared space from my linux box mounted as a network drive on my windows box and everything is fine there.

My problems are the following:
1. Accessing anything on my Windows box from linux.
2. Printing on the shared printers from my windows box

I think that if I resolve the first issue, the second one will work fine.

When I open nautilus and enter smb:/// I see my workgroup wihch is wpomona.

When I click on wpomona is shows my two systems: linuxbox and main.
When I click on linuxbox it show me my shares.
When I click on main (the windows box) an error window pops up and it says "Invalid Action Associated"

When I type "smb://main" directly I get this message
"Couldn't display "smb://main", because no host "main" could be found. Check that the spelling is correct and that your proxy settings are correct."

I have the following ports on my linux firewall open 137, 138 & 139 both tcp and udp.

I thought it might be my windows firewall so I turned it off and still doesn't work.

If I can get this to work, maybe the printing issue will resolve itself.

Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks in adavance!

I just went through a similar set of problems, and learned quite a lot. Some suggestions. My problems were between Mandrake 9.2 and XP Home.

My guess is the two problems are not related.

First suggestion, have a look through M$ Knowledge base. There are known issues if there have been upgrades on the Windoze system. Turned out I needed to add a guest account. I could not access Linux shares without it.

For the printing problem, it may be useful if you posted your smb.conf file. There is some good help availible, once your file is posted.

Hope this gets you started in the right direction.

Thank's Cliff,

I'll look into the knowledgebase.

Here is my smb.conf file:

# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from localhost (127.0.0.1)
# Date: 2004/01/27 17:17:11

# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = WPOMONA
netbios name = LINUXBOX
server string = Samba Server
interfaces = eth0
security = SHARE
encrypt passwords = Yes
map to guest = Bad User
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
printcap name = cups
dns proxy = No
printing = cups

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

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
create mask = 0700
guest ok = Yes
printable = Yes
print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers.
browseable = No

[print$]
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
write list = @adm root
guest ok = Yes

[pdf-generator]
comment = PDF Generator (only valid users)
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes
print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf %s ~%u //%L/%u %m %I &

[pdf-screen]
comment = PDF Generator - Screen quality (only valid users)
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes
print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf %s ~%u //%L/%u %m %I "" %S &
copy = pdf-generator

[pdf-printer]
comment = PDF Generator - Print quality (only valid users)
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes
print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf %s ~%u //%L/%u %m %I "" %S &
copy = pdf-generator

[pdf-prepress]
comment = PDF Generator - PrePress quality (only valid users)
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes
print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf %s ~%u //%L/%u %m %I "" %S &
copy = pdf-generator

[all]
comment = all
path = /
read only = No

I hope this sheds some light.

Thanks

Hopefully I'm not simplifying this too much, but did you make sure that "main" was in your /etc/hosts file? If not, try smb://ip.address.of.main; if that works, then adding "main" to your hosts file might fix the issue. Maybe..

inigo2,

Thanks! It works. I can connect, I just need to adjust account settings on my windows box.

Well, I learned something new today.

Thanks Again.

I'll post if I have success with printing as soon as I get a chance to play with it.

Everything works correctly now (printing and File Sharing)!

Thanks for the help!