Post your smb.conf file. Located in /etc/samba.

On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 10:20, Kathy Vaughan wrote:
> I apologize in advance if this question has already been asked. I've
> done some poking around in various HOW-TOs and archives, but I cannot
> find the exact answer to my question.
> 
> I am trying to configure SAMBA 2.25 in Webmin 1.020 in RedHat 8.0. Here
> is the situation:
> 
> - Computer A is a Windows 2000 computer that is trying to connect to
> Computer B, which is running RedHat 8.0/SAMBA 2.25. The SAMBA server is
> running on Computer B. Computer B has one share, "Drive_F", which is
> mapped to the mount point /mnt/Drive_F (which is /dev/hdb7). /dev/hdb7
> is mounted and is browseable on Computer B. Both computers belong to the
> workgroup named "WORKGROUP". Computer A has "NetBIOS over TCP/IP"
> enabled.
> 
> - Computer B has two users defined for SAMBA: user1 (me) and user2 (the
> user for Computer A). No other users exist in the SAMBA user list in
> Webmin. Computer B has Lokkit running at "Low" security. Authentication
> is set to "User Level". Guest access is disabled.
> 
> What is happening so far:
> 
> - Computer A can see Computer B in Network Neighbourhood; however, if
> the user tries to view the shares for Computer B, the following message
> occurs:
> 
> "\\ComputerB is not accessible. The network path was not found"
> 
> - If Computer A tries to map to \\ComputerB\Drive_F and provide the
> SAMBA username and password, the following error occurs:
> 
> "The network folder specified is currently mapped using a different
> username and password. To connect using a different username and
> password, first disconnect any existing mappings to this network share."
> 
> Followed by:
> 
> "The mapped network drive could not be created because the following
> error has occured:
> The credentials supplied conflict with an existing set of credentials."
> 
> Note that the share was not mapped to begin with on Computer A.
> 
> I have tried the following:
> 
> - Changing the password for user2 so that it matches the user's password
> in Windows 2000.
> - Mapping the user's Linux username to his Windows username.
> - Enabling guest access.
> - Setting it so that no password is required for user2.
> - Setting user2's account to "Workstation Trust Account".
> - Adding user2 and user2's group to "Valid Users" and "Valid Groups",
> respectively, for the share "Drive_F".
> 
> The SAMBA server was restarted after implementing each of these changes.
> In every case the same errors mentioned above occured. Except for the
> addition of the user and group to the share, all the changes made above
> were discarded after the errors occured.
> 
> If Computer B reboots into Windows 2000, both computers can connect to
> eachother and browse eachother's shares.
> 
> I would appreciate any suggestions on how to get Computer A to connect
> to the share on Computer B. While I have read the man pages for SAMBA
> and looked through the troubleshooting sections on their website, I
> cannot seem to solve this problem. I am unfortunately very new to Linux,
> so I apologize if this is "old hat" to the people on this list.
> 
> Thank you in advance for any help the list can provide.
> 
> - Kathy Vaughan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
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