more samba woes

Gerry Doris gdoris at rogers.com
Fri Mar 5 19:51:39 UTC 2004


> I've gone through and used terminal to add a user...
>
> smbpasswd -a ryan
> (entered password)
> smbpasswd -e ryan
>
> this is what the share looks like in my samba.conf file
>
> [music]
> 	valid user = ryan
> 	path = /mnt/music
> 	create mode = 0777
> 	directory mode = 777
> 	browseable = yes
> 	comment = music
> 	writeable = yes
>
> encrypt passwords is set to yes and security is set to share
>
> there is also a homes share
>
> [homes]
> 	comment = Home Directories
> 	browseable = yes
> 	writeable = yes
>
> The shares show up in network neighborhood but when I click on them it
> tells me I don't have permission to access the share. My windows user and
> password match my linux user/pass and samba user/pass. Any more
> suggestions. I tried using webmin to set it up and that didn't help any.
> I'm going to try and install swat after work tonight and see if that'll
> help me get things straight. I think I used swat on drake before and got
> things setup through that. If anybody has any suggestions as to what may
> still be causing this problem please speak up.
>
> Also, I don't have the firewall service turned on. For a brief moment it
> did show my home directory and the files in it and I know I clicked no to
> set up the firewall when I installed FC1. One more thing, I did remember
> to
> restart samba after I made the changes and still nothign. "service smb
> restart"
>
> Thanks for the help
> Ryan Duff
>

You might want to run "testparm" to check if you've made any typo's in
smb.conf.


Gerry





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