[wellylug] Re: SMB server set up in Ubuntu

[Andrew]

> I think there may be a samba setting that equates samba user accounts 
> with
> established (Linux) user accounts, but it may not be default behavior.
> On the linux systems I set up at work to provide CVS, I have to create 
> samba
> user names and passwords before people can sign in.  The samba command 
> is
> 'smbpasswd'.  Try using that on the Ubuntu box to set up a user name 
> and
> password (just something simple to try it) and see if the Mac can use 
> that to
> connect to a share.


> In your smb.conf add a share like this :
> [share1]
>         path=/some/path/here
>         public=yes
>         browsable=yes
>         read only = no
> then see if you can mount that
> If that works then just firewall smb and leave it alone ;-)

Thanks for the help guys. Tracked it down to samba failing to start but 
not reporting it to the GUI (which is what he was using). I didn't have 
access to the machine - it's in England - so couldn't see this earlier.

Attempts to reinstall samba have worked but samba still is not 
starting. I guess he needs to strip out all samba related files/confs 
and start again.

Your thoughts?

For the record SMB works fine on an OSX Mac. It's built-in but not the 
default (that's still Appletalk which now has long name support etc).

Cheers
Andrew