HOWTO: Setup Samba peer-to-peer with Windows

[parradux]

Ok i'am going to be a little more specific:
And a little more background info: My account name/password is on windows is different then on my laptop. I think this may be a problem from reading some of the forum posts. So how do I fix this?


smbclient -L localhost -U% gives me:

Domain=[HOME SERVER] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.22]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
print$ Disk
MyFiles Disk
IPC$ IPC IPC Service ()
ADMIN$ IPC IPC Service ()
Domain=[HOME SERVER] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.22]

Server Comment
--------- -------
BORIS-LAPTOP
NESIC-SERVER

Workgroup Master
--------- -------
HOME SERVER BORIS-LAPTOP


My smb.conf is:

[global]
; General server settings
netbios name = boris-laptop
server string =
workgroup = HOME SERVER
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 = yes

printing = CUPS
printcap name = CUPS

syslog = 1
syslog only = yes

; NOTE: If you need access to the user home directories uncomment the
; lines below and adjust the settings to your hearts content.
;[homes]
;valid users = %S
;create mode = 0600
;directory mode = 0755
;browseable = no
;read only = no
;veto files = /*.{*}/.*/mail/bin/

; NOTE: Only needed if you run samba as a primary domain controller.
; Not needed as this config doesn't cover that matter.
;[netlogon]
;path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
;admin users = Administrator
;valid users = %U
;read only = no

; NOTE: Again - only needed if you're running a primary domain controller.
;[Profiles]
;path = /var/lib/samba/profiles
;valid users = %U
;create mode = 0600
;directory mode = 0700
;writeable = yes
;browseable = no

; 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

; Uncomment if you need to share your CD-/DVD-ROM Drive
;[DVD-ROM Drive]
;path = /media/cdrom
;browseable = yes
;read only = yes
;guest ok = yes

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

[lbarosi]

Hi,


Everithing worked fine. Getting Windows XP to see the network is a little bit har but samba documentation linked helped a lot.

However, I still have some problems:

Connecting from XP works fine. There are two users and They are correctly set up.

Connection from Ubuntu, only one user password works! I probably did sometthing wrong, but I can't figure what could be.

I have two computer XP/Ubuntu and I'm trying to set a network all transparent whatever OS they are running. Which means I'd like to have a sambafs in fstab, but I wouldn't like to type in my password in fstab. Windows files are really public, I only need to enforce privacy on the linux side.

Thanks for any help.

[DDM]

I've had this setup, and it works beautifully. However, I have two problems with my setup, which has a laptop running XP and connected with a wireless card to a router, which connects to my Ubuntu desktop which has the printer attached.

1) Printing is flaky. Once the print command is issued on the laptop, the print menu takes about a minute to show up. Sometimes, it just doesn't work whatsoever.

2) File transfers are very slow; maybe 50K/sec. If I transfer a file over the same connection with apache or a ftp server, I get full 802.11g speeds.

[dannyboy79]

lbarosi=if you are worried about adding a windows share to your fstab and not wanting to put in your username and password just use a credentials file and make it only openable by root. check this site out, it has helped everyone I have ever told about it.
http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Filesys...rmanently.html
DDM, are you atalking about when you transfer files and you sitting at your winxp box? or when you are sitting at your linux box. then if you're at windows, are you going thru network neighborhood or are you mapping a network drive. i noticed things go faster when you map and a network drive. also, ftp is always gonna be faster, it's a totally different protocol! maybe there is an answer here:
http://www.gatago.com/linux/samba/19227375.html

i personally use ftp when i need to transfer movies or xbox games, if it's just a small file or whatever than i use smb. i sometimes even use ssh.

[Skaurecircle]

Followed the instructions at the start of this thread and Samba is working fine, I am able to browse the XP box and pull files into Ubuntu. My question is this, while I was following the instructions I got to a piont when I kept getting an error message ( Please look below). Its at the piont when you have tp put in your username with a password, Strormbringer recommends the one i used at installation which I did, howver I get the error message, thing is Samba works fine regardless, should I be worried or just write it off to good luck?

Error Message:

garth@garth-desktop:~$ sudo smbpasswd -L -a your_username
Password:
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Failed to initialise SAM_ACCOUNT for user your_username. Does this user exist in the UNIX password database ?
Failed to modify password entry for user your_username

[dannyboy79]

it's telling you that whatever username you're trying to add to your smb database is NOT a linux user on the machine. since smb refers to the same database that linux uses for it's users, then in order to add a smb user you need to have already added that same user to your linux box. you can either use the gui within system, admin, users and groups or i think from the terminal it's adduser 'username'. what i find weird is that you state that samba is already working for you. why are you trying to add more users than. after I re-read your post, something is totally wrong here. there would be no way that samba would be working fine if you were unsuccessfull in adding your username to smb if your smb.conf has passwd backend=tbdsam ( i think that's what it is) also, are you using security=user or share. if you are using share than it might be working because then you're not using authentification for your file sharing and ANYONE on your lan can access see files. i am curious, are you saying that you are able to VIEW your winxp box thru nautilus and also view the shares on it. if so, please post your smb.conf. thanx. this is one thing that just will not work for me. do you have the windows xp guest account activated? thank you for posting if you do, you could help me and I can maybe help you, if you need that is.

[sKuarecircle]

cooll I have no probs with that, but you got to let me know where to get, and how to get the smb.conf file.

[sKuarecircle]

Nevermind dumb question, as far as the seeing other Xp Boxes on my lan, I there is only one other one, and if i go to plase, network servers i am able to browse it with no password requests.

Here is my smb.conf file:

[global]
; General server settings
netbios name = garth
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 = yes

printing = CUPS
printcap name = CUPS

syslog = 1
syslog only = yes

; NOTE: If you need access to the user home directories uncomment the
; lines below and adjust the settings to your hearts content.
;[homes]
;valid users = %S
;create mode = 0600
;directory mode = 0755
;browseable = no
;read only = no
;veto files = /*.{*}/.*/mail/bin/

; NOTE: Only needed if you run samba as a primary domain controller.
; Not needed as this config doesn't cover that matter.
;[netlogon]
;path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
;admin users = Administrator
;valid users = %U
;read only = no

; NOTE: Again - only needed if you're running a primary domain controller.
;[Profiles]
;path = /var/lib/samba/profiles
;valid users = %U
;create mode = 0600
;directory mode = 0700
;writeable = yes
;browseable = no

; 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

; Uncomment if you need to share your CD-/DVD-ROM Drive
;[DVD-ROM Drive]
;path = /media/cdrom
;browseable = yes
;read only = yes
;guest ok = yes

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

Please offer your opinoion because I would rather have it done the right way

[pcpat67]

When I enter:

sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

I get:

sudo: gedit: command not found

I also navigated to the file in the file manager and tried to edit it by opening the file from there and saving it, but it wouldn't let me save the changes. It popped up an error box that said "Can't open file to write"
What can I do?

[ImpelGD]

Thanks Stormbringer - just what I needed!

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 resolution to that problem may have already been posted (I haven't read all 18 pages), but I also got that unhelpful message when I'd used my Windows username instead of my Ubuntu username in the Samba config file.

When I enter:

sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

I get:

sudo: gedit: command not found

I also navigated to the file in the file manager and tried to edit it by opening the file from there and saving it, but it wouldn't let me save the changes. It popped up an error box that said "Can't open file to write"
What can I do?

I'm no expert, but perhaps you haven't created the smb.conf file successfully? Try repeating the 'touch' command to create the file first.