[NBLUG/talk] Samba and Windows

[droman at romansys.com]

Tim,
  1) List your samba users and make sure you have the correct user in the
linux and samba system that matches your windows user:
     "pdbedit -L" to list users and there uid's
     "pdbedit -L -v" to list a bunch of good info
     man pdbedit for many more options.

  2) Check that your smb.conf file has correct user list for the specific
share:
     In smb.conf:
     [SHARENAME]
     ...
     valid users = @usergroup
     or
     valid users = me,you,someone

  3) Make sure your XP password matches your linux password otherwise you
will most likely get asked for a valid password.

  4) Make sure your XP username is the same, otherwise you will get asked
for a valid userid.

  5) Check /var/log/ :
     tail -f /var/log/samba/smbd.log
     tail -f /var/log/samba/nmbd.log
     tail -f /var/log/samba/machine.log
     tail -f /var/log/syslog  (and/or messages).

  6) Make sure the permissions on the share for the user in samba would
normally allow you access to the folder/files as if your user in linux
doesn't have access to them, your windows/samba user won't either.

Good luck!

---Dean.




> On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 07:01:15PM -0700, Tim Preston wrote:
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> Using Suse10.0 and setting up Samba. I can see the shares available from
>> an XP box but can not log into the Suse box. I wondered if one of you
>> might help me walk through troubleshooting this problem. Does it sound
>> like a user right, or a authentication issue? How can I tell?
>
> the best place to start would be to 'tail -f' the appropriate samba log
> file as you attempt to mount the share.  The logs are most likely in
> /var/log/samba/.  There should be a specific logfile for your xp client --
> either named by IP or the computer's name.  The shotgun approach, of
> course, is tail -f /var/log/samba/*,
>
> -troy
>
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