benkenobi1601
January 31st, 2010, 09:01 PM
Hi all, I have spent days and days trying to fix allegedly such a simple kind of issue, but I have just lost too many hairs and at this point I am giving up on getting a nice simple linux server if you all can't figure it either.
Anyways, I have a linux server running jaunty jackalope, I've got the newest samba version installed (I've installed and uninstalled nearly 10 times), here is my smb.conf file:
[global]
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
workgroup = workgroup
netbios name = "Server"
invalid users = root
security = user
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
wins support = no
log file = /var/log/samba.log
log level = 3
max log size = 1000
syslog = 1
encrypt passwords = true
passdb backend = smbpasswd
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
dns proxy = no
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat =*Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
obey pam restrictions = yes
pam password change = no
null passwords = no
#Share Definitions
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = yes
writable = yes
security mask = 0700
create mask = 0700
[ben]
path = /home/ben
available = yes
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
[test]
path = /home/ben/test
available = yes
valid users = ben
read only = no
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
[home]
path = /home
available = yes
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = no
I do realize it is pretty big and messy but this is a result of all the little parameters I've found on the interest that would have supposedly fixed my issue. The main issue is that I can't connect to any of the 3 samba shares that you can see above from any of my computers (http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/#) ( i have one xp and one vista, neither can connect.)
I try to connect by doing 192.168.1.106/home/ben (I found the IP by doing ifconfig, wher e i got inet addr:192.168.1.106). The strangest thing is that the first day I installed samba, the thing worked fine, I could transfer files onto the share between the server and the computers. The next day, it didn't work, and the weirdest thing was that when I tried to figure out what was wrong, I did ifconfig and the ip had changed to 192.168.1.106 from 192.168.1.102. I don't know what caused the change, but I found it very weird. The other day it changed to 192.168.1.105 as well, but now it's back to .106. This probably has something to do with it. IDK, I am a very big linux (http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/#) noob which is something you can probably tell by now.
So the error I get when I do a 192.168.1.106/home/ben from one of my computers is the standard "connection interrupted" in firefox or the "internet explorer cannot display the webpage" in IE. SO FRUSTRATING!!!
Before you ask, yes, I have made a username for samba as ben and made a password for it.
Any help would be so greatly appreciated, this project is the first time I have tried linux and I feel like an idiot
Anyways, I have a linux server running jaunty jackalope, I've got the newest samba version installed (I've installed and uninstalled nearly 10 times), here is my smb.conf file:
[global]
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
workgroup = workgroup
netbios name = "Server"
invalid users = root
security = user
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
wins support = no
log file = /var/log/samba.log
log level = 3
max log size = 1000
syslog = 1
encrypt passwords = true
passdb backend = smbpasswd
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
dns proxy = no
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat =*Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
obey pam restrictions = yes
pam password change = no
null passwords = no
#Share Definitions
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = yes
writable = yes
security mask = 0700
create mask = 0700
[ben]
path = /home/ben
available = yes
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
[test]
path = /home/ben/test
available = yes
valid users = ben
read only = no
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
[home]
path = /home
available = yes
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = no
I do realize it is pretty big and messy but this is a result of all the little parameters I've found on the interest that would have supposedly fixed my issue. The main issue is that I can't connect to any of the 3 samba shares that you can see above from any of my computers (http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/#) ( i have one xp and one vista, neither can connect.)
I try to connect by doing 192.168.1.106/home/ben (I found the IP by doing ifconfig, wher e i got inet addr:192.168.1.106). The strangest thing is that the first day I installed samba, the thing worked fine, I could transfer files onto the share between the server and the computers. The next day, it didn't work, and the weirdest thing was that when I tried to figure out what was wrong, I did ifconfig and the ip had changed to 192.168.1.106 from 192.168.1.102. I don't know what caused the change, but I found it very weird. The other day it changed to 192.168.1.105 as well, but now it's back to .106. This probably has something to do with it. IDK, I am a very big linux (http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/#) noob which is something you can probably tell by now.
So the error I get when I do a 192.168.1.106/home/ben from one of my computers is the standard "connection interrupted" in firefox or the "internet explorer cannot display the webpage" in IE. SO FRUSTRATING!!!
Before you ask, yes, I have made a username for samba as ben and made a password for it.
Any help would be so greatly appreciated, this project is the first time I have tried linux and I feel like an idiot