[PLUG] Any Samba experts here?

[Brian Benson]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:17:25 -0700 (PDT), Rich Shepard
<rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

>     valid users  = @vmwin98

What groups do "rshepard" belong to?  If "rshepard" doesn't belong to
the group  "vmwin98" then you wont be gained access to the samba
share.  When logged into linux as rshepard type `groups` or look in
/etc/group to see if your in there.

Also,  When Evan asked what kind of security mode samba was using he
was refering to the  "security =" line in the [Global] section of
smb.conf. The most common is "security=user" and is what you want.

# "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
# in this server for every user accessing the server.

Check to see if samba can look up your username it its password file.
You can do this with the `pdbedit` command.  example: pdbedit -Lu
rshepard
brian at ibook:~$ sudo pdbedit -Lu brian
brian:1000:Brian Benson,,,

Also, you can watch the sambe log file while your trying to login from
win98.  That will tell you why it doesnt work.  for example:
$ tail -f /var/log/samba/log.smbd

good luck.
-Brian