hello again,
yes i am using the user-level security. after following your
suggestions, i still wasn't able to connect, then i thought about my
firewall settings and turned the firewall off on the linux machine.
now i am able to connect to the server with smbclient through the
terminal on os x. however, when i try to connect through the finder
(go -> connect to server), i manage to connect to the server, i get a
username/password screen, and when i put the user's password in, i
get an authentication error.
i am using the smpasswd for creating the users, and they work fine
through the terminal. i am pretty sure os x should be able to connect
to the server directly, but i am not sure where i am making a mistake.
thanks again.
cheers,
taylan
On Dec 04, 2005, at 11:35, Collin O'Neill wrote:
Can you tell us what security method you are using? It would
help if you listed the steps you used to add users and configure
your shares. SMB is cool but it's pretty complex. Most likely you
will be using user-level security (default), but if you are in a
Windows NT4 or Active Domain environment you'll be trying to use
domain or ADS security. I'm going to assume you are using user-
level security and that you've added the user using the smbpasswd
command.
First, try connecting with any valid user name in your smbpasswd
file using the -U switch instead of just connecting through the
secure shell:
smbclient -L localhost -U [username]
If the user is in the smbpasswd file you should get the listing
of shares along with private directories for the user. Also check
that the shares are world-readable as specified in smb.conf (i.e.
read only = no or writeable = yes) and permissions for the share
are 0777 or 0766. Restrict access after you've got authorization
working.
From your Mac, open the terminal and connect through the command
line:
smbclient //[host]/[share]
Here's the corresponding page in the official HOWTO:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/
install.html#id2520661
-Collin
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