Solaris

Hi all,

Firstly this is my very first attempt at installing and using Samba and only have a basic grasp of how it works....

Earlier today I installed Samba 3.0.2 under Solaris 9 (Sun Ultra 60) for the purpose of sharing my home directory on the Sun with my PC. Following the instructions at www.blastwave.org and using:

pkg-get install samba

I installed samba in /opt/csw/

I have only 2 computers on the "network" - the Sun Ultra 60 and a PC running Windows XP.

I configured the smb.conf file as follows:

<snip>

[global]
workgroup = myhome
netbios name = localhost
server string = Samba server on Sun Ultra 60/Solaris 9
logfile = /var/log/samba/%m.log
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /opt/csw/etc/samba/private/smbpasswd
hosts deny = ALL EXCEPT 192.168.7.4 127.

[cdrom]
path = /mnt/cdrom
read only = yes
guest ok = yes

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writable = yes
valid users = %S
create mode = 0664

<snip>

I then added an account and password, and enabled it using:

smbpasswd -a dopey
Password: *****
Password again: *****

and then enabled the account using:

smbpasswd -e dopey

Now, I can see the share in Explorer on my PC, but when I enter the username and password, windows simply returns the user/pass dialogue box once more, as though I've entered the user or password incorrectly (which I have not!)

The log files that are in /var/log/samba are all empty, although there is a file there called

mypcsname.log

Can anyone advise what it is I might have done wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help!

never used smbpasswd for samba.

but i do use samba in a active directory env. so anything trying to get a samba share has to authenticate to the AD server first.

of course this all happens behind the sheets and the user never knows anything about it.

you could also try ditching the smbpasswd and map the windows username to a unix server name in user.map

example of user.map:

unix_username = windows_username
IE: optimus_p = james_smith

to use that you have to add the following line to smb.conf

username map = /usr/local/samba/lib/user.map

EDIT:
lastly are you starting samba as a service or as a ondemand type of dohicky? i have it as a service thingymabober in the /etc/inetd.conf

If you're using smbpasswd to set a password, make sure it's the same as your Windows domain (or local machine, whoever you log into your Windows box with) account.

The user and the password have to match up. For example, if my Windows user name is LF, I should have a user "LF" in Unix-land with the same smbpasswd (but not necessarily the same system passwd!). And remember the joys of Windows workgroups and/or domains. You may need to specify (when logging in to the Samba share) samba_machine_name\userid, then password.

Samba does also have the ability to do translation (Unix UID -> Windows domain user). So I could map LF above to a user named mike on my Unix box. When LF came in from Windows, it would authenticate and create/read/write files as mike.

I cringe to say it, but I've always used Webmin to administer my Samba shares at work, and I don't use it at home.

Thanks for your help Optimus_P and LivinFree!

I don't quite understand what I've done but, after changing the smb.conf as per the article below (with some minor mods) and after setting the WINS address to that of my SAMBA server, I can now share files! Which is where I wanted to be!

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork.../l-samba3.html

The only problem now is understanding WHY it now works!

Thanks again