HOWTO: Setup Samba peer-to-peer with Windows

Hi stormbringer, and thanks already for the howto. It worked great a few days ago when i followed it. I'm using vmware to emulate a virtual machine with windows xp on it, and I was mapping driver E:\ as my linux home directory. It was ok, no problems.

Still, after a few days it stopped working and I still don't know why. I'm using my pc about 3 times a week, all I've been doing is mostly those kubuntu critical updates, and I'm not sure if I changed my password.

I thought this password problem was the issue, but still to make sure it worked again i decided to run the howto all over again.

checked samba install, stopped daemon, overwritten smb.conf with yours and reconfigured it again, pointing the samba path to /home/my_user. reconfigured windows on it too, removed that netbios-wins support thingy and added my ip again, but no luck. The DAPPER network computer is detected, MyFiles folder is detected, they always are, but when I try to map a drive to it, it says (after a few seconds attemping to connect)

"The mapped network drive could not be created because the following error has occured: An extended error has occurred."

The error is different when the daemon is stopped, so I assume it has something to do with the configuration.

What am I doing wrong? Sorry for the extended crying for help :p Thanks in advance.

PS: I have static ip address but sometimes it changes on ISP maitenance. I noticed the IP changed these past few days, but I've configured it again with the new IP.

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Originally Posted by mac73

hi Stormbringer

tnx 4 givin such a good help.
u make samba so easy dat any novice user can configure it .

bt i hv 1 doubt dat i want to add group.

i hv tried dat with followin commands

groupadd -r groupname
adduser -r -g trust -d/dev/null/-s/dev/null compname$

which we always use in redhat linux
bt. not workin in ubuntu

and 1 more thing i wanna make MSHOME as domain rather than workgroup.
what changes i hv to make in smb.conf?

i tried dat with



domain master = yes

bt. not getin.

pls........... help me out.
tnx

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Sorry for the late reply ... been a little busy lately.

The configuration variable "WORKGROUP =" >>> IS <<< the name of the Domain - t4|<3 4 l00|< 47 7|-|3 d0|<u 4|\|d l34|2|\| 70 3><p|2355 `/0u|2531f!

Oh --- and before you can add a user to some group you better create the group on the local system (groupadd).

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Originally Posted by core

The DAPPER network computer is detected, MyFiles folder is detected, they always are, but when I try to map a drive to it, it says (after a few seconds attemping to connect)

"The mapped network drive could not be created because the following error has occured: An extended error has occurred."

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I love Microsoft's error messages; they are soooo informative.

As you are using VMware (no matter if it's Workstation or Server): did you install a kernel upgrade lately?

If the answer is yes, did you run "sudo vmware-config.pl" to compile the necessary modules for the new kernel? If the answer is no do it _right now_!

Otherwise ...

Please start up VMware, open a command prompt, and type:

ipconfig /all

Please post the output into a reply (or PM me if it's a public IP address).

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Originally Posted by core

The error is different when the daemon is stopped, so I assume it has something to do with the configuration.

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When samba is stopped you should get an error saying that the network path could not be found ... no wonder though.

-Storm

Stormbringer. I just whant to say, Thanks for the howto

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As you are using VMware (no matter if it's Workstation or Server): did you install a kernel upgrade lately? If the answer is yes, did you run "sudo vmware-config.pl" to compile the necessary modules for the new kernel? If the answer is no do it _right now_!

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Yes, but i think samba stopped working before. After I updated the kernel, VMWare stopped working, so I ran vmware-config.pl again to compile it according to my current kernel.
But still, I did it again right now, restarted windows and still the same error appears.

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Otherwise ...

Please start up VMware, open a command prompt, and type:

ipconfig /all

Please post the output into a reply (or PM me if it's a public IP address).

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I did so, check your PM inbox. Thanks!

Still, help from others are more than welcome.

any idea why i cannot WRITE to my samba share?

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Originally Posted by verbatim210

any idea why i cannot WRITE to my samba share?

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I bet the permissions of the folder/mountpoint in your local filesystem are wrong ...

sudo chmod 0777 /path/to/the/shared-folder
sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

NOTE: DON'T CHANGE THE MOD OF YOUR HOME-DIRECTORY!

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Originally Posted by core

I did so, check your PM inbox. Thanks!

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I wrote an reply to your message by PM as well ... please have a look at your inbox.

-Storm

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Originally Posted by Stormbringer

I bet the permissions of the folder/mountpoint in your local filesystem are wrong ...

sudo chmod 0777 /path/to/the/shared-folder
sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

NOTE: DON'T CHANGE THE MOD OF YOUR HOME-DIRECTORY!

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thanks storm
your bullet hit the dot!

Only Samba HOWTO that worked for me.
Great job!