Samba Help - I'm a Samba Newbie

Samba Help - I'm a Samba Newbie

[rjc]

Not really sure what questions to ask here. I've tried to configure Samba on
my linux server. I want to just make a share on the server browsable via
windows explorer which allows me to access my apache config files from
windows. I'm the only one using the server, so don't have to worry about
configuring home directories and multiple users on the same share or any of
that stuff. I just want a simple share, writable by only me, browsable from
windows. One question before I give any details however, is this gunna
really work for me -- if I'm editing apache config files from, say, notepad,
what will happen with respect to line termination. linux/unix uses carriage
return, windows uses crlf. Does samba perform translation on the fly? Will
this totally break the files?

General Configuration Notes
1). Logged in as root, I started both smbd and nmbd from the command line,
2). I used the default configuration file, changing the domain to reflect
our local NT domain.
3). I added something like the following:
[apacheman]
valid users root rjc
browseable = yes
writable = yes

When I tried it with smbclient, and give it the password, it tells me
something about "tree connect: server error, unable to connect", or some
such. Windows sees the host (shows up in network neighborhood) but gives a
"share not found" error when I open it. When I try and mounse it with
something like:
windows> net use \\barajas\apacheman
I get a share not found error.

Am I doing mostly the correct thing here? Have I missed anything obvious?

Thanx in advance!

                    Rich

Re: Samba Help - I'm a Samba Newbie

[Gregory Nowak]

If you really want to learn about
samba, then I'd suggest you read
the samba book on the
Orily (probably didn't spell that right) publishers web sight.
I can alternatively send you the zip file of it
if you'd like.
Greg


On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:39:40PM +0100, rjc wrote:
> Not really sure what questions to ask here. I've tried to configure Samba on
> my linux server. I want to just make a share on the server browsable via
> windows explorer which allows me to access my apache config files from
> windows. I'm the only one using the server, so don't have to worry about
> configuring home directories and multiple users on the same share or any of
> that stuff. I just want a simple share, writable by only me, browsable from
> windows. One question before I give any details however, is this gunna
> really work for me -- if I'm editing apache config files from, say, notepad,
> what will happen with respect to line termination. linux/unix uses carriage
> return, windows uses crlf. Does samba perform translation on the fly? Will
> this totally break the files?
> 
> General Configuration Notes
> 1). Logged in as root, I started both smbd and nmbd from the command line,
> 2). I used the default configuration file, changing the domain to reflect
> our local NT domain.
> 3). I added something like the following:
> [apacheman]
> valid users root rjc
> browseable = yes
> writable = yes
> 
> When I tried it with smbclient, and give it the password, it tells me
> something about "tree connect: server error, unable to connect", or some
> such. Windows sees the host (shows up in network neighborhood) but gives a
> "share not found" error when I open it. When I try and mounse it with
> something like:
> windows> net use \\barajas\apacheman
> I get a share not found error.
> 
> Am I doing mostly the correct thing here? Have I missed anything obvious?
> 
> Thanx in advance!
> 
>                     Rich
> 
> 
> 
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RE: Samba Help - I'm a Samba Newbie

[Holmes, Steve]

Several things:
- You must log on to your windows with the same userid as those listed in
the samba share (root or rjc)

- Also make sure passwords are in the same format on both systems.  By
default Windows incrypts them and I think samba by default, uses plain
passwords on linux.  Samba comes with a registry patch to make plain
password security.  But then your errors never mentioned passwords so I
might be wrong on this one.

-----Original Message-----
From: rjc [mailto:rjc@MIT.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 5:40 AM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Cc: Mike Hobbs
Subject: Samba Help - I'm a Samba Newbie 


Not really sure what questions to ask here. I've tried to configure Samba on
my linux server. I want to just make a share on the server browsable via
windows explorer which allows me to access my apache config files from
windows. I'm the only one using the server, so don't have to worry about
configuring home directories and multiple users on the same share or any of
that stuff. I just want a simple share, writable by only me, browsable from
windows. One question before I give any details however, is this gunna
really work for me -- if I'm editing apache config files from, say, notepad,
what will happen with respect to line termination. linux/unix uses carriage
return, windows uses crlf. Does samba perform translation on the fly? Will
this totally break the files?

General Configuration Notes
1). Logged in as root, I started both smbd and nmbd from the command line,
2). I used the default configuration file, changing the domain to reflect
our local NT domain.
3). I added something like the following:
[apacheman]
valid users root rjc
browseable = yes
writable = yes

When I tried it with smbclient, and give it the password, it tells me
something about "tree connect: server error, unable to connect", or some
such. Windows sees the host (shows up in network neighborhood) but gives a
"share not found" error when I open it. When I try and mounse it with
something like:
windows> net use \\barajas\apacheman
I get a share not found error.

Am I doing mostly the correct thing here? Have I missed anything obvious?

Thanx in advance!

                    Rich



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