samba

[David McGlone]

On Monday 12 November 2007 4:18:34 pm Art Alexion wrote:
> On Monday 12 November 2007 14:13:25 Karl wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying samba to work with my win-XP...
> >
> > I've installed the samba and smb4k packages.
> > Changed these;
> > - chmod 4755 /usr/bin/smbmnt
> > - chmod 4755 /usr/bin/smbumount
> >
> >
> > Problem;
> > If i use "smb://debian/" then i can see all the folders that are shared
> > on that machine. If i click on a folder i get a message that that folder
> > doesn't exist.
> >
> > (...debian is the name of my win-XP machine :)... could'nt help it..)
> >
> > Any ideas.
> >
> > Karl,
>
> It's a permissions issue on the XP side.  Check your sharing there. 
> Konqueror often interprets not allowed as not there.

Yeah it's a permissions problem, because he probably hasn't set up his 
password for the account. :-)

I just spent a week with this problem on a newly installed system. I couldn't 
figure out why it was doing that, it dawned on me after a week I forgot to 
set my samba password.


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