Accessing Linux shared folder from Windows XP
 

Hi all,

I know this is a very common (and simple) question. But somehow I couldn't get it working. I have configured the folder sharing with samba in my Linux computer (Suse 11.0) and can see the shared folders of windows computer no problem. But although I can see the Linux shares in my windows, I cannot get past the user/password barrier. It somehow does not accept it. I have created the user in windows, but still nothing. Is there any other way of accessing them in windows?

And my second simple question: how do I access the windows shared folders from Linux Terminal? Until now, I've accessed via Konquerer, but wanna write a simple shell for file copy from the shared folder.

Best Regards,
Bekir

1. Look at your samba logs. What does it say?
2. Mount your windows share on your linux machine.

-twantrd

try put this line on share section :
guest ok = yes

example :
[sharedfolder]
path = /home/me/shared
guest ok = yes

Hi,

Thanks to you both for your replies..

@twantrd:
1- how can I look at the samba logs? where to find them?
2- I've found such an example of how to mount:
"mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" but how would you specify the path to windows share?? when I connect wia Konqueror, it says in the address bar:
smb://my_user@<ip>/My_Shared_Folder
Could you give me an example?

@amuro: that solved the problem, thanks a lot.

Best wishes,
Bekir

I am a linux newbee too, so my advise come with No-warranty:

mounting a Windows share, should be something like:

mount ipadres/sharename /mnt/Whatever

where sharename, the name of the shared directory is and Whatever is whatever name you want to give the directory in /mnt :)

I hope you can understand me. And if I am wrong, some smart kid will proof me wrong ;)

I tried: mount ip_address/share_folder /mnt/Win_Share and it says
mount: mount point /mnt/Win_Share does not exist

What am I doing wrong??
Thanks for the answer of course..

Regards,
Bekir

logs are usually in
/var/logs

personally wouldn't recommend to just set guest = allow, instead create samba user accounts and assign them.

did you run the smbpasswd on your user accounts to generate them a samba password. Samba uses a different password than the password from the passwd or shadow file.

1. Depends on where/how you installed samba. The names of the log files are something like log.nmbd and log.smbd.

2.
Well, you need to make sure that mount exists first. Create it and try again.

3. I, too, wouldn't recommend 'guest=allow'. I would do that first to make sure my samba setup is up and running. After that, I would start locking it down.

-twantrd