For someone who is concerned somewhat about security, how would I change
that reference to /tmp or something else that would keep this from
happening?
Thanks
> I have been struggling with the exact same problem. I got it to work
> just yesterday. I looked in /var/log/samba/XXXXX.log (XXXXX) being
> the netbios name for the machine that was trying to connect) and
> found an err pertaining to trying to access /root/tmp. So I changed
> permissions on the /root and /tmp directorits to 777. Then it worked.
>
> I have no idea on what this might do to any security concerns, but
> for this box I don't care about security as it is behind my firewall
> and this is just a home network with me as pretty much the sole
> user.
>
> Hope this helps, and somebody with some real knowledge can tell
> us what's wrong under 8.0...
>
> Bruce
>
>
> > I've got a Mandrake 8.0 box set up and I'm trying to access it from a
> > Windows 2000 box SP1 box (not I've also tried from Windows 98 SE). I've set
> > the Samba box up as a member of the Mdkgroup workgroup and set up the
> > Win2000 box as the same. When I double click on Computers near me in My
> > Network places I get the following error - Mdkgroup is not accessible. The
> > server is not configured for transactions - and then it won't go any
> > further.
> >
> > As some background, I had samba working on this box just fine back when it
> > had Mandrake 7.2. I've tried this with the password encryption
> > enabled/disabled and it made no difference. I had the same problem with
> > Mandrake 8.0 before I upgraded Samba to 2.0.8 and that is initially why I
> > upgraded Samba since I thought it might fix this problem. I do have the
> > user account set up for this particular samba user (seperate from the linux
> > account but with the same password). I've tried stopping and restart Samba,
> > rebooting the linux box and the Windows box but so far nothing has made any
> > difference.
> >
> > I can succussfully ping the linux box but if I do a start - run and then
> > enter \\odin it gives me this error - \\odin The network name cannot be
> > found.
> >
> > As far as I know there wasn't anything else I had to do in Mandrake 7.2 to
> > get this working but maybe I'm forgetting something. Has anyone else
> > experienced this since upgrading to Mandrake 8.0 and or Samba 2.0.8? And,
> > more importantly, know of a fix?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Scott Sprunger
> >
> >
>
>
> Bruce Endries
> Bruce Endries Consulting
> (607) 433-2677
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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