Samba on Gutsy 64bit Errors?

chris lostpkts at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 13:37:06 UTC 2007


I'm trying to get Samba working on a 64bit Gutsy server install.  I
selected Samba to be installed during the install.

After I got into the server, I did a

smbpasswd -a <user>
smbpasswd -e <user>

Leaving the smb.conf file intact, I uncommented the [home] stuff that
I wanted and that works fine.

However when I use my share, it doesn't.  The windows client keeps
prompting for a passwd.

[files]
        comment = Misc Files and Programs
        path = /shares/files
        valid users = @users
        admin users = @admin
        write list = @admin


I made sure my <user> was in the 'users' and 'admin' groups but still
no joy.  Yes, I restarted Samba. :)

I find it odd, as this share is the same setup I have on a gentoo box
and it works fine.  So I'm a bit confused.  I did see that there was
no smbusers in /etc/samba so I made one for my <user> but still no
joy.  But porb not needed as its using the tdbsam thing.  Not sure.

I'm also seeing this in the logs:

[2007/10/24 05:20:41, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(792)
  create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators
[2007/10/24 05:20:41, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(758)
  create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users


Please advise.

TIA.




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