[PLUG] Samba and WinXP connection problem

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Ben,

I have no luck.  Problem still remains

At 09:12 AM 10/7/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>"useradd -d /dev/null -s /bin/false M40G$"

It went through without complaint.

>"smbpasswd -a -m M40G"

It went through without complaint, not requesting for adding password

stop ipchains and restart  Samba

# mount
/dev/hde2 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hde1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
//M40G/Shared on /mnt/WinXP type smbfs (0)

One thing I could not understand.  It seems mounted but with a (0) content.


Backside Story
===========
Previously this hard drive ran RH7.3 with Samba server installed also 
having problem in connecting WinXP (the same WinXP under this test).  Samba 
server could see WinXP and its shared folder for file transfer without any 
problem.  But WinXP could not see Samba server.  The smb.conf file was a 
basic Samba config file similar to this one now used.  Unfortunately I have 
not saved the original file for future use.  After installing Samba-2.2.31 
coming with RH7.3 CDs, the setup was quite simple without much work, no 
password requested, no Administrator added to Samba, etc.   But It worked 
one-way only.  Later I made a fresh installation of RH7.3 erasing the old 
one. Now both ways are blocked.

Thanks

Stephen Liu




>-a for adding an account, -m to signify it's a machine account.
>
>That's it. Restart Samba and the WinXP box for good measure, and you should
>be in business.
>
>-Ben
>
> > Hi Russell,
> >
> > Thanks for your response.
> >
> > At 10:10 PM 10/5/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> > >Does the user M40G exist on your box?
> >
> > Sorry I am not very clear of your comment.  M40G exists on WinXP under
> >
> > C:\"My Network Places"\"Entire Network"\MS Windows
>Network"\SEC\M40G\Shared
> >
> > >Has the smbpasswd file been initialized?
> >
> > I have no smb password.  However I tried follow adding a new password but
> > failed:
> >
> > # smbpasswd
> > New SMB password:
> > Retype new SMB password:
> > unable to open passdb database.
> > Failed to find entry for user root.
> > Failed to modify password entry for user root
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Stephen Liu
>
>
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