Samba Network

[supershin]

Using the Samba gui you have to set the windows account you want to use. So under Administration -> Samba. Preferences -> Samba Users. Add a user and enter your windows machine username and password. When you get the prompt that username and password.

Looks like did that but did you enable sharing on that windows account. In windows control panel look for the option to enable file and printer sharing. You can turn on password protected sharing or the guest account access, enable one. Also ensure the windows firewall isn't blocking anything.

[PaulClarke]

Hello,

It is already "yes"

Here is the file

[global]
log file = /var/log/samba/samba.log
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
force unknown acl user = yes
create mask = 0777
null passwords = yes
winbind trusted domains only = yes
encrypt passwords = yes
winbind use default domain = yes
public = yes
dns proxy = no
netbios name = Paul
writeable = yes
server string = Samba file and print server
workgroup = workgroup
os level = 20
printcap name = cups
security = domain
max log size = 1000

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
path = /home
read only = no
available = yes
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
; printable = no
locking = no
strict locking = no

[Music]
comment = test
path = /home/paul/Music
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes

[Morbius1]

Ah, you should have posted that first. As I recall with "security = domain" Samba will try to authenticate the remote user by pointing to the Primary Domain Controller. This is beyond my level of expertise I'm afraid.

[PatchesTheCaveman]

Morbius1 is correct. Try

security = user

instead.

Also if you still experience your browsing problem after you change that, changing the default

workgroup = workgroup

to another name other than the defualt "workgroup" in Samba and on your Windows computers to a custom name might help.

[PaulClarke]

Hello and thank you.

You are being prompted for a password at the Workgroup level?

answer yes.

I can mount external shared drives via FSTAB but I cannot browse the workgroup.

Regards

Paul

[PatchesTheCaveman]

Try adding this line to your [global] section:

wins server = yes

Then restart Samba. From a terminal:

sudo service smbd restart
sudo service nmbd restart

You might need to reboot the Windows computers for them to respect the new configuration.

[PaulClarke]

Hello,

Sorry those things did not work. Now it does not ask for a password it just times out. The shares dealt with byt FSTAB still mount as usual.

Paul