samba problems

[David Meireles]

Try this on the Windows box in a command prompt:

net use z: \\server\share /user:username

Later, please post the [HD3] and [general] part's of your smb.conf.

PS: I had a similar problem last week with an ubuntu server, but the 
machine was acting as a domain controller...

Paul escreveu:
> Yes to all...did smbpasswd -a and smbpasswd -e (several times) and share is 
> browsable.  No luck.  Still get the windoze error.
> Paul
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> On Monday 04 August 2008 6:02:56 David Meireles wrote:
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>> Sorry, my bad... Ok then, if the username and password in the Windows
>> box are the same in the Ubutnu box (and you have to do a "smbpasswd -e
>> user" and "smbpasswd -a user" to enable the linux user in the samba
>> environment) and the share is browseable, you should be able to access
>> it. You could try something to see if you could bypass that access
>> denied warning... try to map the share in the windows pc and set that up
>> to use the correct credentials
>>
>> Paul escreveu:
>>     
>>> My original post described the situation I'm trying to achieve. 
>>> Specifically, I want to give share access to a single windows user and
>>> not to others. However at the moment, from the windows side, I get a
>>> dialog telling me access is denied with no opportunity to provide a
>>> username or password. Paul
>>>
>>> On Monday 04 August 2008 5:06:45 David Meireles wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi.
>>>> I think you have to add the following options to you share defenition
>>>>
>>>> public = yes
>>>> browseable = yes
>>>> guest ok = yes
>>>> Force user = some user @ the server # Don't know if this one will be
>>>> needed, but try
>>>>
>>>> And of course, you'll have to have the "security = share" definition in
>>>> the [general] part of smb.conf
>>>>
>>>> Paul escreveu:
>>>>         
>>>>> On Sunday 03 August 2008 11:48:13 Karl Auer wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 11:36 -0400, Paul wrote:
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> OK, I am now able to access the share from the linux box, but not
>>>>>>> from the windows box.
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> How *exactly* are you attempting to connect, and what *exactly* is
>>>>>> happening that is not what you expect?
>>>>>>             
>>>>> I've been going thru network neighborhood/windows exploder.  The share
>>>>> is shown, but when I attempt select the share (HD3), I'm met with the
>>>>> following error dialog:
>>>>>
>>>>> \\tpt41\HD3 is not accessible.  You might not have permission to use
>>>>> this network resource.  Contact the administrator...
>>>>>
>>>>> Access is denied.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would expect to at least get a user/password dialog before the error
>>>>> message.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> [HD3]
>>>>>>> path = /media/hd3/
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> Is this the share the Windows user is trying to access?
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Yes
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul
>>>>>           
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