HOWTO: Setup Samba peer-to-peer with Windows

[werdna5225]

I'm sorry if this has already been asked, but when I try to map the network drive, I get an error that says the path could not be found. Does anyone know what the problem could be? Also, the ubuntu computer is found in the workgroup but when i try to access the ubuntu computer i get the login dialogue but can't seem to get it to ok access.

[Troberg]

Another small problem I've noticed:

I'm sharing files with international characters, in my case the Swedish Å, Ä and Ö. Windows and Linux apparently has different ideas about how to represent these characters, and they come out as pairs of other characters.

Yeah, I know using international characters is begging for trouble, but it's too many files with to many interdependencies to rename with a reasonable effort.

Any ideas?

I'm sorry if this has already been asked, but when I try to map the network drive, I get an error that says the path could not be found.

When I get it, it's because the Samba service has failed to start. Try to restart it (don't trust the system when it's telling you it's running, just restart it). If you get a message that the service can't be stopped because it's not running, you've got the same problem as I got. In that case, just start it manually. I have no idea why this is happening or how to get it to start properly without manual intervention.

[yashoda]

I've been reading this HOWTO for 2 days now!

I was just about to give up, when I noticed that the XP machine was recognising my Ubuntu laptop!

but when I typed my username and password in, they weren't accepted!

I've used the password setting commands again, to ensure I am typing in the correct password.

Any advice?


ps. I do agree though, that this is the most straightforward HOWTO on Samba yet!

[Troberg]

but when I typed my username and password in, they weren't accepted!

Are you sure you got the workgroup right? That caused me some problems much like yours when I hurried a bit too much on one machine.

Otherwise, check caps lock.

[yashoda]

Hi Troberg,

Thanks for replying.

Yeah, i got the Workgroup in Caps, cos that's how it showed in Windows, when I checked the Computer Name.

will try as, "Mshome" instead.

[yashoda]

nope... still asks for username, and password which don't seem to be correct.

[Scimu]

Thanks a lot for this, I have networking all setup now!

[Krextyl]

Anybody? posts #476 and #477

Thanks

[Wharf Rat]

Stormbringer,

I finally carefully followed your instructions. It works! My wife's XP laptop can share files and print to my Ubuntu desktop.

Thank you very much!!

For those of you still having problems, look at the Windows machine settings. My two Ubuntu machines talked just fine -- Windows could never make the connection.

[de_valentin]

Hi there,

I received an error here

1.1 Starting samba and setting up user accounts

Let us fire up samba for the first time. Type:

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/samba start

There shouldn't be any errors - if you are presented with an error message make sure everything is correct (search for typos and/or invalid paths).

it reads

command not found