I have a Windows home network with a bunch of Windows boxes and two Ubuntu boxes. Everything can access shares on everything else, with one exception: no one can get to the one share on the second Ubuntu box which I just added to the system.
All my machines have one user account (admin privileges in Windows) with the name "pauld" and the same password. In an effort to solve this problem on the second Ubuntu box, I even copied the smb.conf file from the first Ubuntu box and edited its "netbios name" parameter. The only difference I can see in the configuration of the two boxes is the different computer names, which are reflected both in their hostnames and their netbios names. Oh, and I've rebooted everything several times. Yet when I attempt to access the sole share on this machine, either from a Windows machine or from the other Ubuntu box, it rejects the username/password. (One difference: Windows boxes fail on trying to open the machine; the older Ubuntu box can see open the machine and see the share name, but fail on trying to open the share. Dunno if that means anything.) For reference, here's the smb.conf from the offending machine: --- [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP netbios name = BUILD server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu) dns proxy = no name resolve order = bcast wins log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 syslog = 0 panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d encrypt passwords = true passdb backend = tdbsam obey pam restrictions = yes unix password sync = yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . pam password change = yes map to guest = bad user usershare allow guests = yes [printers] comment = All Printers browseable = no path = /var/spool/samba printable = yes guest ok = no read only = yes create mask = 0700 [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /var/lib/samba/printers browseable = yes read only = yes guest ok = no [all] comment = Everything read only = no path = / browsable = yes create mask = 755 --- Most of this stuff was created automatically by installing Samba, so I don't really know what it means, or even if it's necessary. I stripped out all the comments, and manually added the [all] share at the end. (And I don't need any lectures about providing write access to root, please.) The ONLY difference between this file and the one on the working Ubuntu machine is the netbios name. There are no other mysterious files in /etc/samba that could be confusing things. No logs in /var/log/samba show any failures. So my general question is: how do I fix this? And a more specific question is: is there any other file somewhere that could be getting into the act, and screwing this machine up? If there isn't an answer forthcoming, how about this: how do I go about debugging this? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba