I hope somebody can help a little (or more) on this :


I am trying to set up samba on a server in the following way :


server shares :

/home/user1
/home/user2
/home/commonuserdata

so that user1 can see "server" in network neighbourhood, connect with his password and be taken to
/home/user1, user2 the same way (except beeing taken to /home/user2), and /home/commonuserdata accesible by both win users.

I've tried setting this up in webmin and swat but I can't get it running, the windows machines (xp home and pro) find the server ok, but when entering password nothing happens.

I tried setting security=share, guest only, open access so to speak, and the same happens, they find the server when searching for it, can ping it, but when connecting nothing happens.

I'm not posting here out of laziness, I've read most howto I can find (including the official) but it seems to be over my head..

Server is running Debian Sarge btw, everything else works ; NFS, internet, webserver, mail ... just samba I simply can't get running/accesible from XP. I know XP Home has some issues with domain logon, but that shouldn't stop the XP Pro (corporate) machine..

Please, all help welcome !

EDIT: Just to mention, I've tried turning of all kind of firewalls

Hi there

Your setup isn't difficult.

Make sure your basic connectivity is okay first?
Check netstat -ntlp, and see whether are there any samba services running. Each time you make changes to the configuration, you have to restart the service for configuration to apply.

Second and lastly,
Here's what you need in your samba configuration file (smb.conf)
Restart samba.

Try accessing your server.

Thanks for the reply ! I needed some input badly (still do, but great to be noticed)


netstat -ntlp o the server :

Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:32768 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:2049 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:993 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2118/inetd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:995 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2118/inetd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:901 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2118/inetd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2171/mysqld
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:843 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2357/rpc.statd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:139 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2118/inetd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:716 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2233/rpc.mountd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:846 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2362/rpc.rquotad
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:110 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2118/inetd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2118/inetd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1730/portmap
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:10000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2381/perl
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:81 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2395/ispconfig_http
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2577/proftpd: (acce
tcp 0 0 192.168.66.11:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2562/named
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2562/named
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:953 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2562/named
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2545/master
tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN 2436/apache2
tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN 2350/sshd
tcp6 0 0 ::1:953 :::* LISTEN 2562/named
tcp6 0 0 :::25 :::* LISTEN 2545/master
tcp6 0 0 :::443 :::* LISTEN 2436/apache2

I feel stumped...is samba running afterall ?


I followed your instructions on smb.conf , and as before server showed up in network neighbourhood, click it, up comes the login box and no user name/ passwd combo I can imagine works... also tried blank and user@server etc.


Any idea what can do this ?

EDIT : regarding samba I'm lost as you might see.... please bear with me ! your replies are appreciated..

Also, after the password doesn't go through win xp writes \[the name of the win pc]\[the login I tried] in the login field

Mr. Nistelrooy :


I owe you an apology and a BIG THANK YOU !


it's working 100 % , I forgot smbpasswd -a [user] ****



Thanks again !