Samba Shares

[Pete Clapham]

As long as you've set your SAMBA password, you can use either a net use 
(e.g. net use x: \\sambaserver\username, where sambaserver is the name 
of the samba server and username is the name of the user; you will be 
asked for the password when it tries to connect) or a my network places 
wizard. 

good luck.  Samba is a pain, but it does work.  There is also a 
distressingly thick O'Reilly book on SAMBA which I found helpful when I 
was getting started.

cheers,
pete

semaj3000 wrote:
> I have tried adding the user via command line. Made sure the samba services
> are all on there. 
>
> The windows computer pings fine from the Ubuntu box and vica-versa.
> I tried manually connecting to the window shares in the terminal but no go.
> In windows I still cannot connect the Ubuntu box it just imes out, doesn't
> even ask for a password.  In nautilus and pyneighborhood and others it
> doesn't see the windows pc.  I tried to connect doing smb://pcname/share and
> it doesn't work. I tried it via ip and still nothing. Lastly I uninstalled
> everything relating to samba. And then I am trying to delete the config
> files folder on etc but it will not let me.  
>
> Can you guys help get my Ubuntu pc see my windows shares? And also getting
> my windows computer to be able to connect to a Ubuntu share(and or browse
> for shares shared on the Ubuntu pc)?
>
> If I could run a command and send it back to the group with the error code
> it may help us out. Any suggestions on commands to run.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Luca Ferrari
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 5:02 AM
> To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
> Subject: Re: Samba Shares
>
> On Tuesday 11 December 2007 semaj3000's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote:
>   
>> I am attempting to share a folder from my Ubuntu 7.10 computer to my
>> windows xp pro sp2 pc.  All of the firewalls are off and uninstalled on
>>     
> the
>   
>> linux box.  On the windows machine I have windows firewall off and
>>     
> disabled
>   
>> with kaspersky internet security. I set the workgroup to be the same on
>> both computers, set the computer name. Shared out my home folder, added
>> user account with password.  Now I go back to my windows machine and
>>     
> browse
>   
>> the workgroup and I can see the machine but if I double click on it it
>>     
> says
>   
>> I am not allowed to access. I have enclosed the windows error. On the
>> Ubuntu box I cannot view the other windows computer.
>>
>>     
>
> Hi,
> are you sure that the window machine is not sending an account username like
>
> \computerName\userName? This can cause problems. Moreover check if the
> window 
> machine has other network shares mounted, in that case it will send the same
>
> username and password to the samba server, and if it is not right it will
> not 
> allow you to access the share.
> >From the linux box, if you cannot smbclient the clients, try to add their
> ips 
> to /etc/samba/lmhost and try to do a nmblookup against the client name.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Luca
>
>   

-- 
Pete Clapham
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio, 44115

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