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Bapman

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From: Ottawa, Canada

Registered: 2007-09-02

Posts: 140

[solved] Samba is not working !

Hi,

I am getting bold trying to make Samba working. It is not the first time I spend a lot of time on it, but right now I am really stuck !

When I try to see my shares from another computer with nautilus, it says "Unable to mount location" (I see my computer and I see my shared folder, I just can't get into). With smb client I get :

Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.30]
Server not using user level security and no password supplied.
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_GROUP

(when asked for password, I just hit enter, since I did specify no password in my smb.conf)

Here is my smb.conf :

[global]

   workgroup = WORKGROUP
   netbios name = %h
   server string = Samba Server

   security = share
   null passwords = yes
   hide dot files = yes

   hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127. 137.122.

   load printers = yes
   
   log level =2
   log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
   max log size = 50


[shares]
   path = /home/damien/shares
   public = yes
   browseable = yes
   force user = nobody
   force group = nogroup


[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   path = /var/spool/samba
   browseable = no
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
   guest ok = no
   writable = no
   printable = yes

Samba log (log.nmdb) says :

[2008/06/09 11:44:34, 2] nmbd/nmbd_lmhosts.c:load_lmhosts_file(41)
  load_lmhosts_file: Can't open lmhosts file /etc/samba/lmhosts. Error was No such file or directory

Indeed I don't have a lmhosts file, is it compulsory ?

I precise that I did a chmod -R 777 on my shared folder.

Any clue ?

Last edited by Bapman (2008-06-12 01:04:16)

Bapman

Member

From: Ottawa, Canada

Registered: 2007-09-02

Posts: 140

Re: [solved] Samba is not working !

Hmmm I'm getting really bored with Samba, for all the years I have been using Linux, it has been a pain to configure...

Does someone has a simple smb.conf for sharing a folder without password ?

Last edited by Bapman (2008-06-10 16:49:37)

watsonalgas

Member

Registered: 2007-01-15

Posts: 92

Re: [solved] Samba is not working !

I'm connecting to my samba shares via Windows XP so it may be a little different, but for each share I have this:

path = /mnt/Extra/
comment = Extra
browseable = yes
read only = yes
guest ok = yes

Notice it is read-only, but it works without a password.  They are all NTFS also.  All global options are commented with a ;  except for security, workgroup, server string and log file stuff, so not much of a difference there.

Bapman

Member

From: Ottawa, Canada

Registered: 2007-09-02

Posts: 140

Re: [solved] Samba is not working !

Thanks for the answer but it didn't change anything.

I installed Arch on another computer, I tried to install Samba with public shares following an Ubuntu howto and... same result ! There is something I must be doing wrong every time...

Bapman

Member

From: Ottawa, Canada

Registered: 2007-09-02

Posts: 140

Re: [solved] Samba is not working !

I finally got it working. So here is my final smb.conf :

[global]
    workgroup = MSHOME
    netbios name = %h
    server string = Samba Server
    security = share
    hide dot files = yes
    passdb backend = tdbsam
    dns proxy = no
    wins support = no
    hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127.

[share]
    comment = Public Share
    path = /home/bapman/share
    read only = no
    writable = yes
    create mask = 0666
    directory mask = 0777
    guest ok = yes

[printers]
    comment = All Printers
    path = /var/spool/samba
    printable = Yes
    browseable = No

If it can help someone else...

What I forgot I guess, was to create a Samba account for user nobody. So I did :

sudo smbpasswd -a nobody

and :

sudo smbpasswd -n nobody

so that it has no password.

Also, don't forget to chmod your shared directories !