Samba frustrations
Tom H
tomh0665 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 10 02:24:53 UTC 2010
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:46 PM, <pkaplan1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> From: "Tom H" <tomh0665 at gmail.com>
> 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.
> 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).
The smb.conf file shouldn't have any effect on your samba server
because /etc/samba/smb.conf is compiled in to smbd and will only be
over-ridden if you pass a --conffile option to smbd at launch. The
"workgroup" workgroup is, from what you have posted, a mystery.
It was already strange that you were able to run "smbclient -L
//127.0.0.1" but not "pdbedit -Lw", but that you are able to access
the shares through the box's ip address is even more strange...
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