Samba Server Configuration Tool 1.1.4 troubles
Chadley Wilson
chadley at pinteq.co.za
Fri Apr 30 12:11:39 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 14:05, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Fr, den 30.04.2004 schrieb Chadley Wilson um 13:50:
>
> > Hi
> > All of a sudden this tool starts is troubles.
> > This is what happens. On the file server open the tool and select
> > preferences and then security.
>
> What is that tool you are using?
>
The default samba server tool for FC1.
Thanks for the help
> > If you set the option to "user" click OK then add a user and click OK.
>
> Hopefully that "clicking" creates the Samba user _and_ activates him.
> And hopefully you know that the Samba user must exist as a system user
> too.
>
> > Now you go to the workstation and browse the network. No server to be
> > found? OK so I type in smb:///chadlin and press enter. It comes up but
> > keep asking for the username and password over and over again.
> > Then I finally get to see all the files and guess what it seems to be
> > working.
> > I then try to copy and paste file from the server to the home dir on the
> > wkstation but it asks for the username twice and the does nothing.
> > I tried to reboot the server (foolish I know) but still the prob
> > persists. Is there something that is forcing the share made on samba.
> > I have looked through the smb.conf file but cant find where to set the
> > security.
>
> If it is not there the "tool" did delete the original smb.conf.
>
> # Security mode. Most people will want user level security. See
> # security_level.txt for details.
> security = user
>
> > can anyone help me please
>
> Please read the Samba documentation. It contains a lot of needed and
> helpful information.
>
> > Chadley - Linux Rocks
>
> Alexander
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