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Posted: June 13 2005,13:59

I have recently resurrected by legacy PC with DSL, and I am now trying to set it up as a file server (essentially a mass storage device or external hard drive. ITs all the PC is good for anymore, really.)

Some specs on the PC:
83 MHz Pentium overdrive
64 Megs of Ram
2 harddrives (one 13.6 gig, one 6.5 gig)
the hard drives are split into 2 gig partitions because the bios is so old, that is all it can read (apparently).
DSL is installed on the HD (its own 2 gig partition on the 6.5 gig drive.)

The network card is configured correctly, obtains an ip address via the router, etc. I can even see the linux box from the Windows XP laptop. HOwever, when I try to access one of the shared drives, it says I do not have permission to utilize that network resource. Its quite frusterating. I added my username and password to the passwd file, which is why I can see the shares in the first place, I believe. How do I obtain permissions to use the shares?

(I'm attempting to share entire partitions, if that makes a difference. The way I've got it set up now, I'm trying to share 3 seperate FAT parititions, all of them at 2 gigs each. This shouldn't be that big of a problem though.)

Please help, this is becoming a very frusterating project. If I don't figure this out soon, I'll go insane.

mikshaw

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Posted: June 13 2005,15:16

Don't know how much this helps, but this is what i have in smb.conf that allows windows users to write to a share called "shared" (on suse):
[global]
netbios name = BUNGLE
server string = Samba Server
interfaces = eth0
encrypt passwords = Yes
map to guest = Bad User
time server = Yes
unix extensions = Yes
socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY
printcap name = CUPS
os level = 2
local master = No
domain master = No
hosts allow = 192.168.1.101,192.168.1.102
nt acl support = No
printing = cups
veto files = /*.eml/*.nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/

[shared]
comment = Network Share
path = /home/shared
read only = No
create mask = 0644
guest ok = Yes

Some of it is default settings that i couldn't explain.
I think the "encrypt passwords" option is particularly important for windows machines.

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Posted: June 14 2005,03:33

DSL has a small network utility - smbclient, which lets Linux see Windows directories, and exchange files in an "ftp-like" manner.
But for Windows to see Linux you need the full Samba package. You can download it from the mydsl section.
Then there's quite a bit of configuration involved. Here goes -

From Windows you will need to supply a username and password to access the Linux box. Decide whether you want this to be an existing username, or create a new user for the purpose of sharing. Let's say we make a new user called "shareuser", password "helloworld", SMB password "helloshare". Do this -
adduser shareuser
Enter new UNIX password: helloworld
smbpasswd -a shareuser
password: helloshare

Now edit your samba configuration file - /etc/samba/smb.conf
in the [global] section,
workgroup = yourworkgroupname

In ## Authentication ## section
encrypt passwords = yes

In Share Definitions section, comment out all existing shares. Add:
[shareuser]
comment = Windows Share
path = /home/shareuser
read only = no
Uncomment writable = no
Change 2x permissions masks to 0775

Now after you start these 2 daemons -
/usr/sbin/smbd -D
/usr/sbin/nmbd -D
Windows should be able to browse the /home/shareuser directory.
Some applications automatically start these daemons (LinNeighborhood?)
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Posted: June 16 2005,11:56

I'm still having troubles getting this to work. My smb.conf file is very similiar to the suggested ones above. Also, the proper daemons have started already (smbd, nmbd) and are running. smbclient registers the proper shares (/dev/hdb5 and /dev/hdb6)

However, when I try to mount the shares from my XP laptop or Win98SE box, I get a dialog that says I do not have permission to use that resource (Despite adding proper permissions to the passwd file and using chmod to modify the permissions, etc.)

To see if the problem was isolated to my windows boxes, I tried to mount the shares on the linux box themselves in LinNeighborhood (kind of circular, mounting a share to the machine that is sharing it, but I wanted to see if Linux was able to mount the share.) This doesn't work either! It says I have the incorrect password (Can't remember the exact dialog box, and I'm posting this from work. When I get home I'll run it again and get exact wording if needed.)

So, because of this I'm assuming I have some sort of authentication/password problem. But I'm pretty new to linux in general (and even newer to DSL in particular). Anyone have any further ideas? I'd really appreciate it.

EDIT: One thing I thought of, my smb.conf file has no "create mask= " lines. Are those necessary? It already has "public=yes" and "guest =ok".

mikshaw

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Posted: June 16 2005,15:03

create mask is for setting permissions on files that the user creates in a particular share. It should have no impact on whether or not the user can initially log in.

Maybe the "hosts allow" and "encrypt passwords" options should be checked.

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