HOWTO: Setup Samba peer-to-peer with Windows

[spockrock]

Has anyone experienced this, when they install winbind on the linux box you get that error message from the windows box saying that you do not have permission to access, and like wise on another linux box it it gives me the contents cannot be displayed??

Did I not setup winbind correctly, the funny thing on another setup, Winbind does not cause an issue. Suggestions??

[edfromballarat]

just a quick note from a noob who spent all day trying to make this work with no love apart from pinging between computers

if you have a firewall running, make sure you open a port!

Samba now works a treat between Ubuntu wired desktop and wireless Vista HTPC. The connection is a lot faster than when I had an XP desktop. Can watch movies direct from desktop, and almost **sigh** HD movies, will have to copy them across. Thanks for all the posters who helped me troubleshoot this problem!

[tmcmulli]

Yep, I have the same thing here. Just removed Winbind on my Samba box.

[spockrock]

Yep, I have the same thing here. Just removed Winbind on my Samba box.

I am wondering what in winbind is causing the issue, its frustrating because I would like winbind and samba to work together.

[sapperjanko]

Nice little guild BUT, i am still having big probs....

Im only a n00b here so im using Windows for the forums, I couldnt copy the codes to smb.conf so i got on my ubuntu 7.10 server box, n typed that whole code out.

10-15 mins later

I then put WINS on my lovely Win 98SE and XP boxes, but with saying that, after i restarted the computer i lost all net connections.. Took me about another 5 mins before Windows would let them connect to my Router with DHCP.

But once i got that workin again, and NetBIOS disabled, i still cant connect to samba within windows, i put me password in n all, then comes back sayin i dont have access....

WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING WRONG, i followed everything. Even added the user mark

[kalanc]

Hi, I'm fairly to linux as i've just installed Xubuntu on a P3. I'm trying to set up folder sharing with XP. I can see the folders from XP, but as soon as I try to open them I get a messaage that I do not have permission to use this network resource. Can somebody please help me out on this?
I've installed samba and set up the smb.conf file as instructed.

[spockrock]

Nice little guild BUT, i am still having big probs....

Im only a n00b here so im using Windows for the forums, I couldnt copy the codes to smb.conf so i got on my ubuntu 7.10 server box, n typed that whole code out.

10-15 mins later

I then put WINS on my lovely Win 98SE and XP boxes, but with saying that, after i restarted the computer i lost all net connections.. Took me about another 5 mins before Windows would let them connect to my Router with DHCP.

But once i got that workin again, and NetBIOS disabled, i still cant connect to samba within windows, i put me password in n all, then comes back sayin i dont have access....

WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING WRONG, i followed everything. Even added the user mark

Hi, I'm fairly to linux as i've just installed Xubuntu on a P3. I'm trying to set up folder sharing with XP. I can see the folders from XP, but as soon as I try to open them I get a messaage that I do not have permission to use this network resource. Can somebody please help me out on this?
I've installed samba and set up the smb.conf file as instructed.

Hi on both your machines linux machines that you are making this change on, try this in terminal;

sudo apt-cache policy winbind.

if you get this back;

winbind:
  Installed: 3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.3
  Candidate: 3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.3
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.3 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com gutsy-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0.26a-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Packages

in terminal try this

sudo apt-get remove winbind
sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

and give it about 5 mins and try to connect to the linux machine again. I was having a similar issue but winbind was causing the problem.

[sapperjanko]

Hi on both your machines linux machines that you are making this change on, try this in terminal;

sudo apt-cache policy winbind.

if you get this back;

winbind:
  Installed: 3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.3
  Candidate: 3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.3
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.3 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com gutsy-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0.26a-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Packages

in terminal try this

sudo apt-get remove winbind
sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

and give it about 5 mins and try to connect to the linux machine again. I was having a similar issue but winbind was causing the problem.

Thanks for the quick reply..

Now first of all doin that winbind check i also got these lines

500 cdrom://Ubuntu-Server 7.10 _gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016) gutsy/main Packages

I did remove winbind, now on my windows machince do i do what it said at the start of the totorial about setting up the computs with winBIOS.


EDIT:: I just was able to connect to the test user (mark) without winBIOS, atm all is working fine, but i have got write protection... How is this removed, so i can upload files..

[Plagiarise]

Brilliant tutorial!!!!!! I have been trying to get samba to work with my xbox xbmc for a week. Tried a stack of different tutes to no avail. Was almost ready to go back to XP. Working perfect now, faster than XP.

[GamingMazter]

great guide