Warning: Linux Novice Ahead Almost a year ago, I tried setting up a Fedora based file server at home but when it didn't work and life took over, I gave up. I'm taking another stab at it and running into the same problems I had before.
I just installed Ubuntu yesterday and I'm trying to set up my Samba shares. Here's what works and what doesn't: *Works:* Linux sees, reads, writes all WinXP shares from both computers on my network. Linux sees, reads, writes it's own shares through the smbclient. WinXP sees Ubuntu in the workgroup. *Does NOT work:* WinXP cannot access or even view a list of Linux shares. Login via WinXP "Connect to Linux" dialog rejected for all permutations of upper and lower case characters for the users and passwords that I just created on the linux box. I've just got a small home network. Two(ish) windows computers, a wireless access point, and my linux box. I'm trying to use the linux machine for extra storage as all the windows hard drives are full and this thing is otherwise just sitting around. I also like to play on it. Since there are three of us, I want each to have their own private space, as well as commonly accessible folders for media files. The windows usernames are set up as full names in the form "First Last", where as the linux usernames are just "first". I can change the linux names in anyway that's convenient, but not the windows names at this point. I don't want to use the samba server as a domain controller or a wins controller or anything fancy. This machine isn't on 24/7. I just want it to host some directories and restrict access to them. This seems to me like a fairly straightforward application of a wide-spread application. What's the deal? I'm sure what I'm missing is obvious. Someone please point it out to me. My (mostly generated) smb.conf file is attached, for what it's worth.
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