On Thursday 22 May 2008 14:11:31 John wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of david chong Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:21 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] samba question

Hi,

I am running Centos5.1, trying to configure samba now. I am quite new in this area and hope help from the list.

I could not connect to it from a windows xp pc

...

From the console, I log in and do a

smbclient -L localhost -U%

Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4]

    Sharename       Type      Comment
    ---------       ----      -------
    samba           Disk
    IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4)

Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4]

    Server               Comment
    ---------            -------
    ANTIOCH              Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4

    Workgroup            Master
    ---------            -------
    MYGROUP              ANTIOCH

Could you pls help. Thanks

David

Did you do any basic network trouble shooting like ping the samba server from the windows host by servername and the ip addy? Start there. You should also need to disable windows simple file sharing in the Tools Menu. Have a look at wiki.centos.org there is great how to there about how to do all this. You will also need to define samba or unix users on your samba server.

If you haven't done samba troubleshooting before google for it. There is a very good guide out there - the copy I have is *way* out of date so I won't offer it.

Anne

I notice in the example running "smbclient -L localhost -U%" will output the line below: ADMIN$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.20)

but from my C5.1, I don't have this line, other lines are the same, can anyone explain this line, wondering if this is where the problem lies.

Run testparm and tell us what your share definitions are...if any.

cheers,

Christopher

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of david chong Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:19 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] samba question

Have you ever tried going through the Samba Howto or the Using Samba book material that comes free with samba in html format?

If you want help, then you need to tell us also what you have done...why should we try to walk you through each and every step?

Hi All,

Thanks for all your suggestions.

No, I don't mean to ask you walking me step by step.

Actually I am following the "Samba 3 By Example" and stuck at the very first example. I copied the whole smb.conf but cannot connect to my box. I can ping to it and ssh to it though.

I notice in the example running "smbclient -L localhost -U%" will output the line below: ADMIN$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.20)

but from my C5.1, I don't have this line, other lines are the same, can anyone explain this line, wondering if this is where the problem lies. ------------------------------

Can you ping the Samba Server by the Server name?

"root@localhost]ping yourservernamehere"

All your line means, is that is the administrative share "\servername\admin$". OK, if you did the example in the from "Samba 3 by Example", then you will be able to connect via anonimously to the samba server from the Windows machine. That is providing that you have the correct file permissions on the Samba Server in question.

For that you will use the commands "chmod & chown". Full access is needed to the folder that is shared in samba using that example. When using chown and chmod be sure to use the "-R Option", to make the changes apply recursively to the shared folder.

I honestly know that if your indeed using that example it will work if followed step by step.

Have a Blast :-D!, JohnStanley _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

david chong wrote:

On 5/23/08, John jses27@gmail.com wrote:

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Can you ping the Samba Server by the Server name?

Pinging server name, From the server itself can ping.

Irrevelant to network problems FYI.

However from winxp client cannot ping by server name, can only ping by ip address.

Okay, no network problems it seems.

Do you have netbios over tcp/ip enabled on your windows xp box?

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:09 AM, david chong davidchong144@gmail.com wrote:

Pinging server name, From the server itself can ping. However from winxp client cannot ping by server name, can only ping by ip address.

This probably means that your Win XP hosts file doesn't have the name in it....

mhr

On 5/24/08, Dennis McLeod dmcleod@foranyauto.com wrote:

You should really look into the Samba Mailing list...... https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba Following your thread, you likely need to add the server to the hosts and lmhosts files on your XP boxes, as was already mentioned....

Thanks! will check with the samba list, I am with Centos list only for the moment...

I also notice that I can see the workgroup (MYGROUP) in "My Network Places" but cannot double click into it to see the centos share.