Hello All,

I'm having a problem communicating b/w my Linux box and my Windows XP using samba. I have no problem talking to my XP from my samba, but I am getting an "access denied" when I try to do a 'net view \\sambaserver'.

first question is : do i have to set up the Xp Pro to logon to the box as a domain user?

secondly: when I try to view the system from my Xp pro system I get an access denied, why is this? I even get this error when I try to browse the network, even though I am the network administrator.

thirdly: in samba when I do a 'smbclient -L samba-server' ; it gives me the follow

added interface ip=192.168.1.100 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Got a positive name query response from 192.168.1.100 ( 192.168.1.100 )
Password:

why does it asks me for a password when I am root?

I have created users and the workstation infromation for the smb.conf. Below is my smb.conf file:

If you can help it would be greatly appreciated!!!


;/etc/smb.conf
;
;Make sure restart the server after making changes to this file, ex:
;/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop
;/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start

[global]
;Uncommnet this if you want a gues account
;guest account=nobody
workgroup = MSHOME
hosts allow =192.168.1.
admin users = root
domain logons = yes
domain master = yes
logon home = \\eradiate-linux\home\%u
security = user
wins support = no
log file=/var/log/samba-log.%m
lock directory=/var/lock/samba
share modes=yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd

[homes]
comment=Data
create mode =0600
directory mode = 0700
read only = no
valid users = %S
path = /usr/Data
browseable=yes
read only=yes
public =yes

[netlogon]
path=/home/netlogon

Check out the link below....Lots of great info. re. Win2K & XP joining the domain....

http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/samba-pdc.html

9 times out of 10 this is caused by the Linux firewall. By default the Linux firewall blocks all communication from the LAN.

Disable the Linux firewall or configure it to see eth0 as a trusted device.

What distro are you using?

i'm having the same problem as the original poster (linux can see windows ok, windows cannot see linux).

you mention that the firewall may be the problem and then adding eth0 as a trusted device.

since i am a newbie, would you mind stepping me through this or point me to a reference that explains how to do this?

i'm running redhat 9.0 (mostly default installation).

thanks,

rob

finally a solution...

the problem seemed to have been my firewall. I just totally disabled it.

Run "lokkit"

after disabling the firewall i had no further problems. i'll eventually have to put it back up again, with the proper security... but until then everything works!

thanks all.

tri