W7 > Samba > USE 10.04.2 Won't Connect

[takisan]

Alright, here goes. I'm trying to connect to my [homes] share on my downstairs computer, and it won't connect; Credentials refused.

And just so I don't have people asking for this later:

Laptop:

• Windows 7 Home Premium

Server:

• Named John on the network (no, my name isn't John)
• Fresh install of Ubuntu Server 10.04.2
• sudo apt-get install samba

Here's my smb.conf file.

[global]
workgroup = JWG
netbios name = John--Samba
encrypt passwords = yes

[homes]
read only = no
browseable = no

And if you're going to ask, I do not want to set it up as a domain controller just yet.

Thanks in advance for the help.

[pawhtiobo]

Hi,

You can always set the security to "share" instead of "user" or if you dont want any passwords to access the share, just add the "guest ok = yes" option.

Check this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ht=samba+howto

See ya...

[Morbius1]

You did create users with home directories and set samba passwords for those users right?

[Morbius1]

You can always set the security to "share" instead of "user" or if you dont want any passwords to access the share, just add the "guest ok = yes" option.

I wouldn't advise using either share level security or allowing guests to a [homes] share.

A "homes" share is a special share definition that creates a share "on the fly" when asked to do so by the client. The whole point of it is to create a place on the server for just that specific user to access. It has 2 requirements:

* There's a /home/$USER for the remote user to access.
* There's a samba password for that user.

[capscrew]

I wouldn't advise using either share level security or allowing guests to a [homes] share.

A "homes" share is a special share definition that creates a share "on the fly" when asked to do so by the client. The whole point of it is to create a place on the server for just that specific user to access. It has 2 requirements:

* There's a /home/$USER for the remote user to access.
* There's a samba password for that user.

Respectfully Morbius1; this is not exactly correct. From the Samba documentaition:

    * If no path was given, the path is set to the user's home directory. 

If you decide to use a path = line in your [homes] section, it may 
be useful to use the %S macro. For example:  path = /data/pchome/%S

See here (under [homes]) for the complete info.

My users [homes] directory is at: /srv/smb/home/%S

I do agree that the OP should not use share level security. I believe the default is now user level anyway.

[CharlesA]

Did you add your users with:

sudo smbpasswd -a user