[PLUG] Samba troubles

Matt Alexander m at phxlinux.org
Fri Mar 5 20:25:03 UTC 2004


On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Keith Nasman wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:49:41PM -0700, Matt Alexander wrote:
> > I'm trying to setup would should be a fairly simple Samba configuration
> > for someone.
> > They have a dual-boot server with Windows Server 2003 and RH 9.  There's a
> > FAT32 partition that is mounted read/write for the world on the Linux
> > side.  I then want to share this out on the network.  Here's my smb.conf:
> > 
> > [global]
> > workgroup = somecompanyworkgroup
> > security = share
> > 
> > [Public]
> > path = /mnt/e/Public
> > read only = no
> > guest only = yes
> > 
> > 
> > Pretty simple...  and it works great when I test it on my home network.
> > But when a Win2K client on their network tries to access the Samba server,
> > this message is given:
> > 
> > "There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon
> > request."
> > 
> 
> Matt,
> 
> It looks like your Win2003 server is the PDC and when you boot the RH9
> side there is no PDC to authenticate to (unless the RH9 is set to be a
> PDC in other smb.conf parameters).
> 
> The section of the smb.conf manpage entitled "NOTE ABOUT
> USERNAME/PASSWORD VALIDATION" might help.
> 
> HTH,
> Keith

Yeah, that was the problem, I guess.  So I added the necessary lines to
smb.conf to make it a PDC, added the users and their passwords, and the
users were then able to browse the public shares.
Thanks,
~M





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