Hi, I went through the howto and I can see my server in windows but I can't access it. I get "The network path was not found" error. Any help?
oh and when I try it from an ubuntu computer I get a timeout. There's no firewall set up on the server machine (yet)
Have a look in the logs under /var/log/samba and the syslog for errors. Have you entered the network name + IP of the server and the workstation(s) in the hosts file of your Samba server? What output do you get when you run this command as root on your samba server: smbclient -L localhost -U%
I am having a different error. When I try to connect the the domain I get the following error on my Windows PC. The following error occurred attempting to join the domain "HOME": Logon Failure: unknown user name or password. Don't you have to add accounts for the windows pc's also for domain logons to work?
You have to add an user account first (for the user, not the machine). It is decribed on this page at the top: http://www.howtoforge.com/samba_setup_ubuntu_5.10_p5 No, not manually. If you join the domain with a windows PC, the machine account is created automatically by the add machine script defined in the samba.conf.
I copied this from the howto # Useradd scripts add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m %u delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r %u add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usernod -G %g %u add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false/ -d /var/lib/nobody %u idmap uid = 15000-20000 idmap gid = 15000-20000 Is the bold line correct? I don't have a command "/usr/sbin/usernod".
So I got everything to work. I can read/write in windows but I can only get read-only access in linux. I've tried changing the config but it doesn't seem to change anything. The files are marked as if they have root:root ownership. Help!
What do you mean with read only access from linux? The howto is for anabling Windows workstations to store their data on the samba server, its not an NFS howto for connecting linux workstations to the server. If your files are marked as root:root owner, then you used the wrong user in windows. You will have to create a new linux + samba user, the connect with this username and password from windows. Not with the Administrator user. The Administrator is the root user on linux, it is only used in the process of adding your workstation to the domain to authorize you once as admin.
I'm not sure you understand. I have both linux and windows computers connecting to the samba server. Like I said everything works fine on the windows computer (read+write, and i do login as a samba user) but on my linux computer I can only read (unless I use sudo).
This looks more like a problem on your linux workstation. Which user do you sue to connect from your linux worksattion and wich program / command do you use, smbmount?
I put this in /etc/fstab //192.168.2.200/dagur /home/dagur/server smbfs credentials=/home/dagur/.smbmount-dagur,rw and .smbmount-dagur contains the lines username=dagur password=1234
Have you tried to use smbmount manually on the commandline and set username and password as commandline parameters?
Also went through the howto (http://www.howtoforge.com/samba_setup_ubuntu_5.10_p4), but at the part when I start the installation of samba with the command: "apt-get install samba samba-common samba-doc libcupsys2-gnutls10 libkrb53 winbind smbclient" I seem to miss the winbind-packet. Get the response (translated from Swedish): "Packet winbind is not avaiable, but another packet refers to it. This usually means that the packet is missing, is obsolete or is avaiable from other sorces. E: Packet winbind has no installationcandidate" Tried to google for an answer, but didn´t find any, can anyone here help me? Thanks!
Please check your /etc/apt/sources.list as described here: http://www.howtoforge.com/samba_setup_ubuntu_5.10_p3 The universe repository must be enabled. Then run the commands: apt-get update apt-get upgrade and try to install samba + winbind again. apt-get install samba samba-common samba-doc libcupsys2-gnutls10 libkrb53 winbind smbclient
user password control Hi, thanks for the great tutorial! I set up everything except cups, and have been able to connect to my ubuntu domain controller using roaming profiles, it's very cool! I was wondering, is there a way for users to change their own passwords? Or does the administrator have to do that manually?
