Samba frustrations

[pkaplan1 at comcast.net]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom H" <tomh0665 at gmail.com> 
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com 
Sent: Thursday, September 9, 2010 3:00:41 PM 
Subject: Re: Samba frustrations 

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 6:14 AM, <pkaplan1 at comcast.net> wrote: 
>>From: "Tom H" <tomh0665 at gmail.com> 
>>On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:56 PM, <pkaplan1 at comcast.net> wrote: 
>>> 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 
>>here: 
>>https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2010-September/227600.html 
>> 
>>What' the output of 
>>pdbedit -Lw 
>>and 
>>smbclient -L //127.0.0.1 
>>on the Ubuntu server? 
> 
> pkaplan at dumbledore:~$ pdbedit -Lw 
> tdbsam_open: Failed to open/create TDB passwd [/var/lib/samba/passdb.tdb] 
> tdbsam_getsampwnam: failed to open /var/lib/samba/passdb.tdb! 
> User Search failed! 
> pkaplan at dumbledore:~$ smbclient -L //127.0.0.1 
> Enter pkaplan's password: 
> Domain=[KAPPA_NET] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.7] 
> Sharename Type Comment 
> --------- ---- ------- 
> Dumbledore-share Disk 
> print$ Disk Printer Drivers 
> OfficeJet Printer HP Officejet 6500 e709n 
> IPC$ IPC IPC Service (dumbledore server (Samba, 
> Ubuntu)) 
> Domain=[KAPPA_NET] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.7] 
> Server Comment 
> --------- ------- 
> Workgroup Master 
> --------- ------- 
> KAPPA_NET PS-B810 
> WORKGROUP DUMBLEDORE 
> pkaplan at dumbledore:~$ 

A few things are weird. 

1. I have no idea why "pdbedit -Lw" is failing. You have "passdb 
backend = tdbsam" and haven't defined a non-standard location for 
passdb.tdb in smb.conf. 

2. What is PS-B810? 

3. Dumbledore is in the "WORKGROUP" workgroup even though its 
workgroup is set to "KAPPA_NET" in smb.conf. 

Have you restarted samba since editing smb.conf? 


An interesting catch...which leads me into further frustration. There are two smb.conf files on the system, one at /usr/share/samba/smb.conf and one at /etc/samba/smb.conf. Both show the work group as KAPPA_NET. I have tried sudo service smbd stop and sudo service nmbd stop followed by start for both commands, which I believe should restart the server. Yet smbclient -L //127.0.0.1 continues to show that the server is a member of WORKGROUP. ARGGH!! 


I have been able to get to the server from both win7 and lucid by mapping the IP address of the server, but I still want to see it listed in the Network listing on win7 (which BTW is called PS-B810). 
Paul 



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