One of the few remaining problems I have with my Fedora 7 replacement of Slackware 11 is that I can't get Samba to work.
First I tried setting up Samba with the Fedora GUI and that just produced total invisibility, i.e. windows machines couldn't see anything.
Then I copied my Slackware smb.conf file across to the Fedora installation (and restarted NMB and SMB), now my windows machines can 'see' the Samba server - they recognise the machine name - but I still can't connect. It seems like Samba isn't recognising my password.
What's the best way to diagnose this?
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 10:04:35AM +0100, Chris G wrote:
Then I copied my Slackware smb.conf file across to the Fedora installation (and restarted NMB and SMB), now my windows machines can 'see' the Samba server - they recognise the machine name - but I still can't connect. It seems like Samba isn't recognising my password.
What's the best way to diagnose this?
Have you set the smb password using smbpasswd?
Cheers, Brett.
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 02:11:09PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 10:04:35AM +0100, Chris G wrote:
Then I copied my Slackware smb.conf file across to the Fedora installation (and restarted NMB and SMB), now my windows machines can 'see' the Samba server - they recognise the machine name - but I still can't connect. It seems like Samba isn't recognising my password.
What's the best way to diagnose this?
Have you set the smb password using smbpasswd?
Well I *thought* I had using the Fedora GUI, I had added some shares and some users. However, I don't know what the Fedora GUI does but it doesn't appear to add users correctly, or I don't understand it.
When I added a user with the command line smbpasswd everything worked, hoorah for the command line. .... and thank you for the suggestion.
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Chris G