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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">-----Original Message-----</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">From: centos-bounces@centos.org [<A HREF="mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org">mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org</A>] On</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Behalf Of Akemi Yagi</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 1:12 PM</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Subject: [CentOS] Re: Samba config for Windows on VMWare</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">When you say "can't connect", what exactly do you see? For example, if</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">\\machinename\homes or \\IPaddress\homes</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">what message do you get from Windows?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">If I open my entire network, go to Micro$oft networks, Workgroup and click on my samba server, I get this:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">If I go to map the network drive, when I get to the server, it grays out the OK button and shows nothing.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">If I map it directly, like</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="file://\\mhullrichter\homes"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">\\mhullrichter\homes</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">, I get this:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I also tried</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="file://\\mhullrichter\mark"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">\\mhullrichter\mark</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">, which is works with smbclient on the host itself (but not from Windows), I get this:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">It's like the host is visible, but not connectible.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">PS: Here is what my smb.conf file now looks like, per Bart's suggestion (almost):</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[root@mhullrichter samba]# cat smb.conf</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"># Global parameters</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[global]</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> workgroup = WORKGROUP</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> server string = CentOS Samba Server</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> security = SHARE</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> printcap name = /etc/printcap</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> max log size = 50</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> dns proxy = No</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> template shell = /bin/false</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> password server = None</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> username map = /etc/samba/smbusers</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> winbind use default domain = no</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> idmap uid = 16777216-33554431</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> idmap gid = 16777216-33554431</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> cups options = raw</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[homes]</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> comment = Home Directories</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> read only = No</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> browseable = No</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[public]</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> comment = Data</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> path = /home/mark</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> force user = mark</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> force group = users</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> read only = No</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> guest ok = No</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[printers]</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> comment = All Printers</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> path = /var/spool/samba</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> printable = Yes</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> browseable = No</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I don't really care about the printers (they actually work better from the Windows side), but this is annoying. I must be</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">overlooking</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> something. BTW, I also added user mark to the smbusers file, so I'm lost here....</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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