Samba frustrations

Wed Sep 8 23:56:28 UTC 2010

I'm trying to set up a samba server on lucid (kubuntu) and connect to it (mostly) from a win7 machine. The win7 machine and server are both in the same workgroup. 

The problem is that the server is not displayed in the win7 networking page. As a matter of fact, when I attach another kubuntu machine to the network, smbclient doesn't see the server either. So I assume something is wrong with the server config. 

The smb.conf file is below. 

Any ideas what's wrong? 

TIA 
Paul 

[global] 

## Browsing/Identification ### 

# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of 
workgroup = KAPPA_NET 

# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field 
server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu) 

# Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section: 
# WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server 
# wins support = no 

# WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client 
# Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both 
; wins server = w.x.y.z 

# This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS. 
dns proxy = no 

# What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names 
# to IP addresses 
; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast 

#### Networking #### 

# The specific set of interfaces / networks to bind to 
# This can be either the interface name or an IP address/netmask; 
# interface names are normally preferred 
; interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 eth0 

# Only bind to the named interfaces and/or networks; you must use the 
# 'interfaces' option above to use this. 
# It is recommended that you enable this feature if your Samba machine is 
# not protected by a firewall or is a firewall itself. However, this 
# option cannot handle dynamic or non-broadcast interfaces correctly. 
; bind interfaces only = yes 

#### Debugging/Accounting #### 

# This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine 
# that connects 
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m 

# Cap the size of the individual log files (in KiB). 
max log size = 1000 

# If you want Samba to only log through syslog then set the following 
# parameter to 'yes'. 
# syslog only = no 

# We want Samba to log a minimum amount of information to syslog. Everything 
# should go to /var/log/samba/log.{smbd,nmbd} instead. If you want to log 
# through syslog you should set the following parameter to something higher. 
syslog = 0 

# Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace 
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d 

####### Authentication ####### 

# "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account 
# in this server for every user accessing the server. See 
# /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/ServerType.html 
# in the samba-doc package for details. 
# security = user 

# You may wish to use password encryption. See the section on 
# 'encrypt passwords' in the smb.conf(5) manpage before enabling. 
encrypt passwords = no 

# If you are using encrypted passwords, Samba will need to know what 
# password database type you are using. 
passdb backend = tdbsam 

obey pam restrictions = yes 

# This boolean parameter controls whether Samba attempts to sync the Unix 
# password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the 
# passdb is changed. 
unix password sync = yes 

# For Unix password sync to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following 
# parameters must be set (thanks to Ian Kahan <<kahan at informatik.tu-muenchen.de> for 
# sending the correct chat script for the passwd program in Debian Sarge). 
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u 
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . 

# This boolean controls whether PAM will be used for password changes 
# when requested by an SMB client instead of the program listed in 
# 'passwd program'. The default is 'no'. 
pam password change = yes 

# This option controls how unsuccessful authentication attempts are mapped 
# to anonymous connections 
map to guest = Bad User 

########## Domains ########### 

# Is this machine able to authenticate users. Both PDC and BDC 
# must have this setting enabled. If you are the BDC you must 
# change the 'domain master' setting to no 
# 
; domain logons = yes 
# 
# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set 
# It specifies the location of the user's profile directory 
# from the client point of view) 
# The following required a [profiles] share to be setup on the 
# samba server (see below) 
; logon path = \\%N\profiles\%U 
# Another common choice is storing the profile in the user's home directory 
# (this is Samba's default) 
# logon path = \\%N\%U\profile 

# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set 
# It specifies the location of a user's home directory (from the client 
# point of view) 
; logon drive = H: 
# logon home = \\%N\%U 

# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set 
# It specifies the script to run during logon. The script must be stored 
# in the [netlogon] share 
# NOTE: Must be store in 'DOS' file format convention 
; logon script = logon.cmd 

# This allows Unix users to be created on the domain controller via the SAMR 
# RPC pipe. The example command creates a user account with a disabled Unix 
# password; please adapt to your needs 
; add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser --quiet --disabled-password --gecos "" %u 

# This allows machine accounts to be created on the domain controller via the 
# SAMR RPC pipe. 
# The following assumes a "machines" group exists on the system 
; add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -g machines -c "%u machine account" -d /var/lib/samba -s /bin/false %u 

# This allows Unix groups to be created on the domain controller via the SAMR 
# RPC pipe. 
; add group script = /usr/sbin/addgroup --force-badname %g 

########## Printing ########## 

# If you want to automatically load your printer list rather 
# than setting them up individually then you'll need this 
# load printers = yes 

# lpr(ng) printing. You may wish to override the location of the 
# printcap file 
; printing = bsd 
; printcap name = /etc/printcap 

# CUPS printing. See also the cupsaddsmb(8) manpage in the 
# cupsys-client package. 
; printing = cups 
; printcap name = cups 

############ Misc ############ 

# Using the following line enables you to customise your configuration 
# on a per machine basis. The %m gets replaced with the netbios name 
# of the machine that is connecting 
; include = /home/samba/etc/smb.conf.%m 

# Most people will find that this option gives better performance. 
# See smb.conf(5) and /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/speed.html 
# for details 
# You may want to add the following on a Linux system: 
# SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 
# socket options = TCP_NODELAY 

# The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package 
# installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are 
# working to ease installation and configuration of linpopup and samba. 
; message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s' & 

# Domain Master specifies Samba to be the Domain Master Browser. If this 
# machine will be configured as a BDC (a secondary logon server), you 
# must set this to 'no'; otherwise, the default behavior is recommended. 
# domain master = auto 

# Some defaults for winbind (make sure you're not using the ranges 
# for something else.) 
; idmap uid = 10000-20000 
; idmap gid = 10000-20000 
; template shell = /bin/bash 

# The following was the default behaviour in sarge, 
# but samba upstream reverted the default because it might induce 
# performance issues in large organizations. 
# See Debian bug #368251 for some of the consequences of *not* 
# having this setting and smb.conf(5) for details. 
; winbind enum groups = yes 
; winbind enum users = yes 

# Setup usershare options to enable non-root users to share folders 
# with the net usershare command. 

# Maximum number of usershare. 0 (default) means that usershare is disabled. 
; usershare max shares = 100 

# Allow users who've been granted usershare privileges to create 
# public shares, not just authenticated ones 
usershare allow guests = yes 
restrict anonymous = no 
domain master = no 
logon home = \\%25N\%25U 
logon path = \\%25N\%25U\profile 

#======================= Share Definitions ======================= 

# Un-comment the following (and tweak the other settings below to suit) 
# to enable the default home directory shares. This will share each 
# user's home directory as \\server\username 
;[homes] 
; comment = Home Directories 
; browseable = no 

# By default, the home directories are exported read-only. Change the 
# next parameter to 'no' if you want to be able to write to them. 
; read only = yes 

# File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to 
# create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775. 
; create mask = 0700 

# Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to 
# create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775. 
; directory mask = 0700 

# By default, \\server\username shares can be connected to by anyone 
# with access to the samba server. Un-comment the following parameter 
# to make sure that only "username" can connect to \\server\username 
# This might need tweaking when using external authentication schemes 
; valid users = %S 

# Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons 
# (you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.) 
;[netlogon] 
; comment = Network Logon Service 
; path = /home/samba/netlogon 
; guest ok = yes 
; read only = yes 
; share modes = no 

# Un-comment the following and create the profiles directory to store 
# users profiles (see the "logon path" option above) 
# (you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.) 
# The path below should be writable by all users so that their 
# profile directory may be created the first time they log on 
;[profiles] 
; comment = Users profiles 
; path = /home/samba/profiles 
; guest ok = no 
; browseable = no 
; create mask = 0600 
; directory mask = 0700 

[printers] 
comment = All Printers 
browseable = no 
path = /var/spool/samba 
printable = yes 
create mask = 0700 

# Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable 
# printer drivers 
[print$] 
comment = Printer Drivers 
path = /var/lib/samba/printers 

[Dumbledore-share] 
read only = no 
path = /home/pkaplan/share 

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