Re: [MLUG] samba woes

[Jason Youngquist <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Have you looked at the DIAGNOSIS.txt (at least that's what it used to
be called) file included in the Samba distribution?  That file helped me a
lot with troubleshooting Samba problems.  It has like 20 different steps
you go through in order to isolate your problem.

--Jason

On 5 Aug 2002, Craig Coley wrote:

>
> ok, i have been fighting this for a long time trying to get it to work.
> i have 2 machines on my home network, one is running win98 se and the
> other is running red hat 7.3. i have the samba server daemon setup on my
> linux box and can use smbclient to connect to the windows machine and
> view the files there. but here's the problem: i can see my linux box
> from network neighborhood, but when i try to connect to it, it asks for
> a password, no username and lists the resource as: \\localhost\ipc$. no
> matter what password i use, i am unable to connect. i was using webmin
> to setup samba and my smb.conf file is huge so i won't post it here.
> however, i tried the following basic smb.conf, which according to the
> documentation on the samba website should work:
>
> [global]
>    workgroup = Home
>
> [homes]
>       guest ok = no
>       read only = no
>
> got the same problems with this. tried setting guest ok = yes, same
> problem. i've tried a million different things, way too many to list
> here but am still having issues. what am i doing wrong? anybody got any
> ideas? thanks in advance.
>
> craig
>
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