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Okay guys, I attempted the great experiment... I decided a little while ago to make an attempt at replacing my Windows 2000 Server box (used primarily for file shares to the rest of the network, and a little web serving), with a Linux box.

Ultimately, I decided to go with the Ubuntu flavor of Linux (and using the Server version of it, with the Gnome GUI installed and working).

I even got my files copied from the old NTFS partitions to the new EXT3 ones that I want to share with the rest of my (Windows) network.

And that's where I seem to be stuck.

My network is based around simply a named workgroup (named to my last name, rather than the default WORKGROUP or MSHOME).

I'd like to figure out how to share different folders to different logins (that's how I have it set up with Win 2k server now). But I cannot even figure out how to get it to share to any machine, with any login.

Long story short, after setting it up (using Samba) the way I thought I was supposed to, I go to my Windows machine and try to browse to the share. For example, let's say that my server is named fred, and the share I set up is archives. I go to Windows, and try to browse to \\fred\archives

It then gives me a Windows login box, but nothing I type in there (including username or fred\username or fred/username as the id) will let me even see the share.

I used the Gnome GUI to share that folder (supposedly), and I confirmed that it does show up in the smb.conf at /etc/Samba.

But I'm stuck. Can anyone either help, or at least point me in the direction of some good resources to help me figure it out on my own?

Thanks all!

Guide Dog Joined: 08 Nov 2003 Posts: 8377 Location: MN

first off try just the IP address not the computer name.

Secondly, typing testparm at a command line will dump your smb.conf and check for any errors.

And if you are using a recent version of ubuntu and windows XP that should be give you a fair indication as to what is wrong.

Oh and make sure you have a user on the linux box with access to both the files your trying to share (chmod 777 if you want to be read write for ever one, I recomend it for trouble shooting permissions issues, not much more.) and as smb users. (smbpasswd --help has more on that)

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:54 pm Post subject:

also, samba lets your linux box look at your windoze
lisa allows your windoze to see into your linux

as to where to configure, ????

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:34 am Post subject:

Did you create Samba users.