HOWTO: Setup Samba peer-to-peer with Windows

[dmizer]

Hi, I've been trying on and off for some time to get win98 networkneighborhood up on samba. I've got my three ubuntu machines to access my main 500 gig drive on my main system but not from my main system to the others. Win98 is a loss. Why do I have to manually assign IPs in place of having the router do it automatically? When all my systems were win98 that was okay! Some times I can see my win98 machine but not open the files from any ubuntu machine. I'm quite lost for something that was really simple on win98. The more I read the more I try and I think I need to do a clean all and start over from zero. Any ideas? Ian.

Under the [global] section, add this option

lanman auth = yes

[Fyrzen_]

Hello, great guide, easy to follow.

I've been trying to connect my vista laptop to my Ubuntu PC for ages. And the result has always been... failure. Sadly it's no different this time. I have no idea where to proceed from here. If anyone has any idea, please let me know.

It appears to be stuck on the Windows end if i'm interpreting this right.

INFO:
-It is possible to ping both PC's from oneanother.
-The users and passwords on both boxes are different..
-Naturally, i added and enabled both users using smbpasswd.
-Since I get my IP through DHCP, wins = no.
-The error Windows provides, when mapping the device is: "The Network Path was not found!"
-The path i'm trying to map is \\<ubuntu-IP>\MyFiles

-My smb.conf: (excluding the comments)

[global]
    ; General server settings
    netbios name = spyder
    server string =
    workgroup = WORKGROUP
    announce version = 5.0
    socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

    passdb backend = tdbsam
    security = user
    null passwords = true
    username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
    name resolve order = hosts wins bcast

    wins support = no

    printing = CUPS
    printcap name = CUPS

    syslog = 1
    syslog only = yes



; NOTE: Inside this place you may build a printer driver repository for
; Windows - I'll cover this topic in another HOWTO.
[print$]
    path = /var/lib/samba/printers
    browseable = yes
    guest ok = yes
    read only = yes
    write list = root
    create mask = 0664
    directory mask = 0775

[printers]
    path = /tmp
    printable = yes
    guest ok = yes
    browseable = no

[MyFiles]
    path = /home/samba/
    browseable = yes
    read only = no
    guest ok = no
    create mask = 0644
    directory mask = 0755
    force user = fyrzen
    force group = fyrzen

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[harpss1ngh]

Hi, Stormbringer.

In your 1st post you mentioned that you planned to create a guide on HOWTO: Setup Samba as an PDC with additional services.


Is this guide available to view yet?

[randyklein99]

Fyrzen,

Is your vista machine in WORKGROUP? IME, the default windows workgroup is MSHOME.

[ubila]

Hello
Great guide thanks

Got everything working very quickly with no immediate problems

Do have a few issues though,

When i was mapping the network drive, i cant seem to map it to my hostname\file
it only seems to work with ip-address\file

And i seem to get alot of large lag/delay spikes when i open "My Computer" folder or when i try save a file using a program like Eclipse (php/java editing program) onto the samba share... Even browsing the mapped network drive causes large delays sometimes

My linux box hostname is the same as the hostname i entered into the smb.conf

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

[Fyrzen_]

Fyrzen,

Is your vista machine in WORKGROUP? IME, the default windows workgroup is MSHOME.

The default workgroup name for Windows Vista is WORKGROUP, unless you upgraded to Vista from XP, in which case the default workgroup name is the same MSHOME as with any NT based Windows.

[randyklein99]

The default workgroup name for Windows Vista is WORKGROUP, unless you upgraded to Vista from XP, in which case the default workgroup name is the same MSHOME as with any NT based Windows.

Thanks for that clarification.

[dmizer]

Fyrzen_, try this:

sudo chmod -R 777 /home/samba

Backup your current smb.conf:

sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf-old2

Replace it with this:

[global]
    ; General server settings
    netbios name = spyder
    workgroup = WORKGROUP
    socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

    passdb backend = tdbsam
    name resolve order = hosts wins bcast
    security = user

    printing = CUPS
    printcap name = CUPS

    syslog = 1
    syslog only = yes

[MyFiles]
    path = /home/samba/
    browseable = yes
    read only = no
    guest ok = no
    force user = fyrzen

[Fyrzen_]

dmizer, thanks for the help.

I'm still getting an error on Vista:

The specified network name is no longer available.

On the Windows side I have disabled File and Printer Sharing, which is said to conflict with accessing another Samba fileserver(wether it is on or not does not seem to effect the error message). I have also disabled NTLMv2 authentication, which Vista uses by default, but 2.x versions of Samba do not support and use old NTLM.

[ramana1432]

thanx for your thread. i sucessfully done the samba configuration