[wellylug] Re: SMB server set up in Ubuntu

[Cliff Pratt]

Andrew wrote:
>> 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.
> 
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> 
>> 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).
> 
Yeah, if it failing, there will be logs, surely.

Cheers,

Cliff

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