Hi, I am running Centos5.1, trying to configure samba now. I am quite new in this area and hope help from the list. I could not connect to it from a windows xp pc>From the console, I log in and do a>smbclient -L localhost -U%Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- samba Disk IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4) Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4] Server Comment --------- ------- ANTIOCH Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4 Workgroup Master --------- ------- MYGROUP ANTIOCH Could you pls help. Thanks David
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of david chong Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:21 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] samba question Hi, I am running Centos5.1, trying to configure samba now. I am quite new in this area and hope help from the list. I could not connect to it from a windows xp pc>From the console, I log in and do a>smbclient -L localhost -U%Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- samba Disk IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4) Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4] Server Comment --------- ------- ANTIOCH Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4 Workgroup Master --------- ------- MYGROUP ANTIOCH Could you pls help. Thanks David ----------------------------------------------- Did you do any basic network trouble shooting like ping the samba server from the windows host by servername and the ip addy? Start there. You should also need to disable windows simple file sharing in the Tools Menu. Have a look at wiki.centos.org there is great how to there about how to do all this. You will also need to define samba or unix users on your samba server. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
david chong wrote:> Hi, > > I am running Centos5.1, trying to configure samba now. I am quite new > in this area and hope help from the list. > > I could not connect to it from a windows xp pc >>From the console, I log in and do a > >> smbclient -L localhost -U% > > Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4] > > Sharename Type Comment > --------- ---- ------- > samba Disk > IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4) > Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4] > > Server Comment > --------- ------- > ANTIOCH Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4 > > Workgroup Master > --------- ------- > MYGROUP ANTIOCH > > Could you pls help. > Thanks > > DavidHi David, I recommend you this: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/ This is IMHO an excellent guide made by the good folks at samba.org. Very basically, you need to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and define your shares there. The default file is abundantly commented. You can have your server validate the accesses using locally stored samba/users accounts or even validate with a SMB/CIFS PDC (Winblows or Samba). Hope this helped a bit! Guy Boisvert, ing. IngTegration inc.
david chong wrote:> Hi, > > I am running Centos5.1, trying to configure samba now. I am quite new > in this area and hope help from the list.Have you ever tried going through the Samba Howto or the Using Samba book material that comes free with samba in html format? If you want help, then you need to tell us also what you have done...why should we try to walk you through each and every step?
> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of david chong > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 3:21 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] samba question > > Hi, > > I am running Centos5.1, trying to configure samba now. I am > quite new in this area and hope help from the list. > > I could not connect to it from a windows xp pcYou should really look into the Samba Mailing list...... https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba I only use two mailing lists (Linux that is...) Centos and Samba...... Following your thread, you likely need to add the server to the hosts and lmhosts files on your XP boxes, as was already mentioned.... Dennis