[CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested
Scott Silva
ssilva at sgvwater.com
Thu Mar 27 15:58:32 UTC 2008
on 3-27-2008 3:21 AM Anne Wilson spake the following:
> On Wednesday 26 March 2008 22:37:38 Scott Silva wrote:
>> on 3-26-2008 2:22 PM Anne Wilson spake the following:
>>> On Wednesday 26 March 2008 20:50:46 John wrote:
>>>> Thanks for posting the config file but comparing it to mine I see
>>>> nothing wrong. I am going to do a clean install of the server and start
>>>> over with Cent OS 5.1. It use to be a RHEL updated to centos maybe
>>>> that's the reason for the problems???
>>> Nope - mine was a clean install. In the morning I'll do a compare with
>>> my settings, but I use a very simplified [global] as recommended for my
>>> situation in Samba 3 by Example, so many of those settings will not be
>>> there. With any luck I might find one that helps.
>>>
>>> Anne
>> Have you both made sure that your xp clients aren't using simple file
>> sharing? That disables credential passing and instead passes guest with no
>> password.
>
> I haven't even tried an XP connection since I installed CentOS, but I'll check
> that out when I do. Meanwhile, getting it to work correctly for the linux
> boxes is more important.
>
> Anne
>
>
Why use samba to share anything for linux boxes?
You can share the same directory structure with nfs for the linux boxes and
have much less trouble.
It seems like a kludge to use cifs to share between two linux boxes.
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