Fwd: Re: [newbie] Samba problem
Uh..that's what I said. create a new user on your windows machine..via the process that Dennis tells us to do. control panel- windows. M On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, you wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:10:10 +0800, you wrote: You can probably create a new user on your windows machine, and log on using the username for your linux system. This is a windows issue, because windows doesn't have any provision for using login/passwd, unless you're using NT. Wrong. Win95 and win98 both have provisions for setting user passwords and logon id's.You can do so by clicking on the "users" icon in control panel in windows. So, people tweak with the registry files or something. I don't know how it's done, exactly, though. As above. Or alternately you can set a logon id and password simply by erasing the .pwd file in your windows directory and shutting down. When you reboot windows will ask you to set a user id and password. Simply make sure that it matches one on the linux box. --M On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, you wrote: On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:41:23 -0500, you wrote: I'm trying to run Samba on my Mdk6.1 system. I've got the client working A-OK (smbmount will connect to my Windows box fine), but I can't get the server-side working. When I look in my Windows Network Neighborhood thing it lists the Mandrake machine, but when I try to view the shares I configured it says asks me for a password for the resource \\SERVER\IPC$ which I'm lost at. The username and password that you are logged on as on the wondows box must match a user name and password on the linux box. That user must also have access rights to the shared drive or directory on the linux box. I looked in /var/log/samba and smb.log says this: - smbd version 2.0.5a started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998 [2000/01/13 12:31:15, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216) file_init: Information only: requested 1 open files, 1014 are available. [2000/01/13 12:32:14, 0] lib/access.c:check_access(262) Denied connection from ppro (198.168.0.1) [2000/01/13 12:32:14, 1] smbd/process.c:process_smb(608) Connection denied from 198.168.0.1 - Here's the smb.conf, or at least the uncommented lines: - [global] workgroup = McKenna server string = P166 running Linux hosts allow = 198.168.0. 127. printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 security = user socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 dns proxy = no [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no public = yes [webhome] comment = Website home path = /home/httpd/html public = yes writable = yes [rootdir] comment = Dangerous! Be Careful! path = / public = yes writable = yes - Any ideas? Damien Mc Kenna http://wso.net/mckenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 17066133 Married Jen (1998) Keene State College student, Applied Computer Science -- Margaret Uy [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- Margaret Uy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] upgrading kernel
I'm currently using Mandrake Update to upgrade my kernel from, I assume it's 2.2.13-17mdk to 2.2.13-22mdk, (correct me if I'm wrong) and when I select the package, it "warns" me that I'd have to update /etc/lilo.conf manually. Is that something I should worry about? I'm really pretty new to this and what changes am I supposed to make, if ever? Meg
Re: [newbie] upgrades
Sorry. I must have hit reply (R) instead of cc to all receipients (A) earlier. Back on list now. Using kmail. On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, you wrote: Meger...is there some reason this thread is no longer on the newbie list? One major purpose of the list is to make a database of info for folks to go look up solutions to problems. The info won't be available to anyone if the thread is taken private. I suppose that reinstalling shouldn't make a difference, but I've observed the same phenomenon as well. I'm glad your updates icon is now working properly, you see mine did the same as yours (I just was forced by circumstance to do a re-install) on my original install (end of September). That's why I knew how to fix the problem right off. But, interestingly enough, the same symptoms do not occur on this install. My updates icon worked fine from the getgo this time. I'd say that if you have extra disk space and want to test (that's what a beta test is for, testing for bugs) an operating system not deemed by it's authors as ready for distribution yet, then by all means get a copy and have at it. But don't install it in place of your working os. That'd be a mistake. Version 5.2 was called Leeloo, 5.3 was called Festen, 6.0 was called Venus and 6.1 is called Helios. The beta of 7.0 is called Oxygen and it'll be called something else other than Oxygen when it's released. If you're using Netscape, why use sendmail? Netscape doesn't need it. I have a 6 system lan with 4 users (me, wife 2 sons) and we all connect through a mandrake system masquerading for our lan and connected through a 28,800 (bad phone lines) bps modem. I use netscape's mail client on linux and the rest of the family use win98 outlook express. each client gets it's own mail. Now I have some reasons to use smail or sendmail with this setup and eventually will do so, but in your case it sounds like extra problems that you don't need. Where are you resetting your name and why not just name it correctly during setup? Anyway let's look at /etc/HOSTNAME what does yours have in it? here's mine: obi-wan.home.net Ok, now lets look at /etc/hosts what does iyours have in it? here's mine: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 192.168.0.1 obi-wan.home.netobi-wan 192.168.0.2 bbs.home.netbbs 192.168.0.3 matt.home.net matt 192.168.0.4 jason.home.net jason 192.168.0.5 barbara.home.netbarbara 192.168.0.6 yoda.home.net yoda 192.168.0.7 yaddle.home.net yaddle 192.168.0.8 qui-gon.home.netqui-gon 192.168.0.9 alan.home.net alan Ok, now ignoring all but the top two entries (yes, there are only six machines, but some are dual booting systems so have two different names and IP's), the top one on yours should be (and stay) exactly the same as mine (thats the loopback device). The second line should be what you named your computer and your domain. So, yours should be something like: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 192.168.0.1 local.mydestiny.net local Local for a computer name is kind of unimaginitive, not so? Anyway, enough for now. Alan Meg wrote: Hi Alan. This is my 2nd installation of mandrake, actually. First time I tried it was during the Christmas holidays, and that's when the updater didn't work. I did a new install because I think I screwed up sendmail, and I didn't know how to fix it. Couldn't even ask about it in mailing lists, cause I couldn't isolate what was wrong. So I reinstalled the other day, and when I tried it again this morning, right about after I sent you that question, it seemed to work fine. Now, I find that a bit odd..why does reinstalling sometimes fix things almost magically? I thought that that only happened with windows. Do you think it's a good idea to start playing around with Mandrake 7.0? And when you say Oxygen, is that a "popular name" for mandrake 7.0, like, they way they say, slink or ham or potato for different releases of debian? My old sendmail problem started, I think, when some servers wouldn't accept mail from my system because it was "unknown". I kept trying to play around with my hostname, trying to change it from localhost.localdomain to something I liked, and these changes would take effect. It kept reverting back to localhost.localdomain from, say, local.mydestiny.net, and I don't quite remember what I did to screw it all up, but one thing I never did was reset my hostname. Netscape sometimes comes up with an error that my localhost is unknown, and I should contact my sysadmin. But of course, after it reset to localhost.localdomain, this error doesn't come out anymore. Now, with my new install, which seems to be a
Re: [newbie] Samba problem
You can probably create a new user on your windows machine, and log on using the username for your linux system. This is a windows issue, because windows doesn't have any provision for using login/passwd, unless you're using NT. So, people tweak with the registry files or something. I don't know how it's done, exactly, though. --M On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, you wrote: On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:41:23 -0500, you wrote: I'm trying to run Samba on my Mdk6.1 system. I've got the client working A-OK (smbmount will connect to my Windows box fine), but I can't get the server-side working. When I look in my Windows Network Neighborhood thing it lists the Mandrake machine, but when I try to view the shares I configured it says asks me for a password for the resource \\SERVER\IPC$ which I'm lost at. The username and password that you are logged on as on the wondows box must match a user name and password on the linux box. That user must also have access rights to the shared drive or directory on the linux box. I looked in /var/log/samba and smb.log says this: - smbd version 2.0.5a started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998 [2000/01/13 12:31:15, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216) file_init: Information only: requested 1 open files, 1014 are available. [2000/01/13 12:32:14, 0] lib/access.c:check_access(262) Denied connection from ppro (198.168.0.1) [2000/01/13 12:32:14, 1] smbd/process.c:process_smb(608) Connection denied from 198.168.0.1 - Here's the smb.conf, or at least the uncommented lines: - [global] workgroup = McKenna server string = P166 running Linux hosts allow = 198.168.0. 127. printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 security = user socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 dns proxy = no [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no public = yes [webhome] comment = Website home path = /home/httpd/html public = yes writable = yes [rootdir] comment = Dangerous! Be Careful! path = / public = yes writable = yes - Any ideas? Damien Mc Kenna http://wso.net/mckenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 17066133 Married Jen (1998) Keene State College student, Applied Computer Science
[newbie] upgrades
How does one go about upgrading mandrake from 6.1 to 6.5? If the process is too long, could someone point me towards the proper documentation to read? M
