Samba Sharing
 

My samba has been activated. But for some reason when I try to access it from my windows machine it displayes a permission error. Can somebody help me with this. Another problem is that when I go to the network folder on linux and I click on the Localhost the linux machine, it sais that it cannot access it and that it might have been deleted recently. But there is no problem when I access windows from the linux machine. Help!

have u made a user in samba

smbpasswd -a <username>

regards

I have created a account, but it still does not work

ok so can u login like this ,as i can do

run this on the samba server

smbclient -L 192.168.0.20 --user=gaurav


this will prompt u for a passwd

and see if u can see the shares

regards

It does not work, it sais "tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_DUPLICATE_NAME

so u do not have a valid samba user

make a new user say "test"

and make that samba user as

smbpasswd -a test

and set the passwd

regards

I created the account but it still does not work, when I type
smbclient -L 192.168.0.6 it displayes the shares, but after that it sais sesion request to 192.168.0.6 failed(Called name not present)

then i think u do not have set ur samba conf file correctly

can u send that to me??


regards

I don't think it is the config file, I think it is the netbios name. I have not configured one. Where do I do that, because I can't see space for it in the smb.conf file

Ok, i have configured the netbios name and now it works, but I now have to linux pc's showing up in the network, the one is Linux (localhost),which i cant access and the other is Linux(Linux) which i can access and appeared afteer i entered the netbios name

are those same machines??

if yes then localhost will go by itself from network in some time


regards

Are you sure it wil go away, aint ther a line that i can delete somwhere, because it is in the linux pc aswell, when I go to the network on linux then i see window ,linux and localhost and as you know localhost does not work

from where in linux do u see that localhost

what do u now get in the server section

smbclient -L <samba server IP>

regards

It should take 35-40 minutes for the name to dissapear from the list.

Everything is fine, no more errors and no more ghostpc's.Thanks