Hi, I have a network in my room with three computers right now, two connected to a Lynksys router, that router is connected to a wider network, then to the internet. The three computers i have in my room are: laptop running Windows Server 2003, connected to a wireless router desktop running Windows Server 2003, connected to the router in my room desktop running Mandrake 9.2 connected to the router in my room i'm trying to get my mandrake 9.2 to run a samba server that will allow my two windows 2003 computers to access shares on it. i do not have a domain controller, just a small home network with a few routers. i am having alot of trouble getting the samba server to work correctly. First, when i use LinNeighborhood, i can see all my other windows computers on my network. When i open Network Places on my windows 2003 computers, i cannot see my mandrake machine shares. however, if i go to Entire Network/Microsoft Windows Network i see my workgroup name (MSHOME) but i also see an additional workgroup named MDKGROUP. When i open MDKGROUP it says "unable to open mdkgroup, you might not have permission blah blah" but earlier, i COULD open it, and when i did i saw a Samba Server vsomething.something(LOCALHOST). and when i opened that, i say the folder on the mandrake box that i was sharing, but when i tried to open it, it gave me an error saying i didnt have permission. i'm very confused and cant seem to even browse my mandrake shares. im also confused as to why there is a MDKGROUP workgroup, when i specified "workgroup = MSHOME" in my smb.conf. can someone PLEASE help me? thanks in advance -zak hellraiserr0@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Hellraiserr0 ?rta:>Hi, >I have a network in my room with three computers right now, two connected to a Lynksys router, that router is connected to a wider network, then to the internet. >The three computers i have in my room are: >laptop running Windows Server 2003, connected to a wireless router >desktop running Windows Server 2003, connected to the router in my room >desktop running Mandrake 9.2 connected to the router in my room >i'm trying to get my mandrake 9.2 to run a samba server that will allow my two windows 2003 computers to access shares on it. i do not have a domain controller, just a small home network with a few routers. i am having alot of trouble getting the samba server to work correctly. First, when i use LinNeighborhood, i can see all my other windows computers on my network. When i open Network Places on my windows 2003 computers, i cannot see my mandrake machine shares. however, if i go to Entire Network/Microsoft Windows Network i see my workgroup name (MSHOME) but i also see an additional workgroup named MDKGROUP. When i open MDKGROUP it says "unable to open mdkgroup, you might not have permission blah blah" but earlier, i COULD open it, and when i did i saw a Samba Server vsomething.something(LOCALHOST). and when i opened that, i say the folder on the mandrake box that i was sharing, but when i tried to open it, it gave me an error saying i didnt have permission. i'm very confused > and cant seem to even browse my mandrake shares. im also confused as to why there is a MDKGROUP workgroup, when i specified "workgroup = MSHOME" in my smb.conf. can someone PLEASE help me? thanks in advance >-zak hellraiserr0@yahoo.com > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com > >In order for Network Neighborhood, LinNeighborhood, etc to work better you should set up one of your computers as a WINS server, any of them (Samba ,W2k3) are able to do this. Then configure the other two to use this WINS server. It seems that you currently are using broadcast node discovery, which could be very ineficient even in such a 3 computers setup. Cheers Geza Gemes
On Monday 01 Nov 2004 07:56, Hellraiserr0 wrote:> however, if i go to Entire Network/Microsoft > Windows Network i see my workgroup name (MSHOME) but i also see an > additional workgroup named MDKGROUP.So the computers are not on the same network. Go to /etc/samba/smb.conf - make a copy of this file, because it contains a lot of useful information - then change the workgroup name to MSHOME Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
Mandrake's default setting is to have: map to guest = bad user in the smb.conf. This means, that if your Windows user doesn't exist on the Mandrake box, it will get mapped to guest. I suppose your [public] share definition doesn't have a public = yes, or guest allow = yes line? So I see three possible solutions here: - Specify map to guest = never, in this way your windows users would get prompted for a username/password when they connect - Create the corresponding usernames/passwords on the mdk box (both useradd xyz, and smbpasswd -a xyz) - Allow guest access to public. About WINS: if your network is part of a bigger one, your needs could vary depending of your setup: -permanent vs. temporary connection -static IP addresses vs. DHCP -having a WINS server on the bigger network or not. Cheers, Geza> Thanks for the help, I've gotten a little further, now my samba server > shows up in network neighborhood, but when i try to access it it says > "\\MOSES\public is not accessible. You might not have permission, > blah blah '' any ideas why i can't access it? do i need to add the > username logged into my windows 2003 box to the smb.conf? > about the WINS server, ive never had any experience setting a WINS > server up. which box would work better as a WINS server, the same box > that the samba server is on? one of the windows 2003 machines? or > should i make a seperate machine for it? and will this affect the > wider network that my smaller network is connected to? thanks again. > -zak > > */G?mes G?za <geza@kzsdabas.sulinet.hu>/* wrote: > > Hellraiserr0 ?rta: > > >Hi, > >I have a network in my room with three computers right now, two > connected to a Lynksys router, that router is connected to a wider > network, then to the internet. > >The three computers i have in my room are: > >laptop running Windows Server 2003, connected to a wireless router > >desktop running Windows Server 2003, connected to the router in > my room > >desktop running Mandrake 9.2 connected to the router in my room > >i'm trying to get my mandrake 9.2 to run a samba server that will > allow my two windows 2003 computers to access shares on it. i do > not have a domain controller, just a small home network with a few > routers. i am having alot of trouble getting the samba server to > work correctly. First, when i use LinNeighborhood, i can see all > my other windows computers on my network. When i open Network > Places on my windows 2003 computers, i cannot see my mandrake > machine shares. however, if i go to Entire Network/Microsoft > Windows Network i see my workgroup name (MSHOME) but i also see an > additional workgroup named MDKGROUP. When i open MDKGROUP it says > "unable to open mdkgroup, you might not have permission blah blah" > but earlier, i COULD open it, and when i did i saw a Samba Server > vsomething.something(LOCALHOST). and when i opened that, i say the > folder on the mandrake box that i was sharing, but when i tried to > open it, it gave me an error saying i didnt have permission. i'm > very confused > > and cant seem to even browse my mandrake shares. im also > confused as to why there is a MDKGROUP workgroup, when i specified > "workgroup = MSHOME" in my smb.conf. can someone PLEASE help me? > thanks in advance > >-zak hellraiserr0@yahoo.com > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > >http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > In order for Network Neighborhood, LinNeighborhood, etc to work > better > you should set up one of your computers as a WINS server, any of them > (Samba ,W2k3) are able to do this. Then configure the other two to > use > this WINS server. It seems that you currently are using broadcast > node > discovery, which could be very ineficient even in such a 3 > computers setup. > > Cheers > > Geza Gemes > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Do you Yahoo!? > Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now > <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/msgr/evt=26089/*http://messenger.yahoo.com>.