Samba
Alex Marzec (alex@unc.edu)
Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:00:08 -0400
Marcus
Your email (partial contents below) came my way via Marc ter Horst. The
following may help. If not, if you provide details about your setup I may
be able to provide further assistance.
If you are using encryption on the password string, the setup is a little
more difficult. If you have no Win9x clients Samba will be much easier to
setup as WinNT4.0 (>Service Pack 3) and Windows 2000 support encryption for
smb passwords by default (unless manually forced to pass cleartext
passwords throught a registry setting). Have you set up encryption for
passwords? Have you set up the Samba password file (using the
mksmbpasswd.sh script) from the Irix /etc/passwd file? Do you have the
Client for Microsoft Networks installed and active on every PC that will
connect? Is NetBIOS enabled over TCP/IP on the PC clients? Are you
restricting client connections (such as by IP address or NetBIOS name) or
user connections by user name? Have you set the smbd and nmbd to start
automatically at boot or on demand?
To test the setup, run the following on the Samba server...
(1) Run testparm against the smb.conf file. This will not guarantee that
a share will function as you intended, but will let you know if there
errors in the syntax or options selected.
(2) Execute smbstatus -d. This will list the Samba version, active
connection list, lock file, and memory use statistics
(3) Execute smbclient -L 'IRIXServerName' where IRIXServerName is the
netbios name given in the workgroup portion of the smb.conf file. This
will provide a list of shares and share comments.
The above can provide a lot of information to help you troubleshoot. Good
luck! Samba is powerful, but there are enough configuration issues
(depending on the complexity of your setup) that can take some time to sort
out.
Alex
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Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 14:22:09 -0400
From: Marcus Wright
To: ammrl
Subject: SAMBA
Does anyone have a working smb.conf file? I am installing SAMBA 2.2.1a
on an SGI O2 running IRIX 6.5.1m. The smbclient seems to be listing
shares but my PC is not "seeing" the server. Any help or pointers would
be much appreciated.
Marcus Wright, Ph.D.
NMR Instrumentation Manager
Chemistry Department
Wake Forest University
(336)-758-5981
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