samba - Apr 2008 - Unable to access linux files from windows using samba configured in linux Vmware

Hi friends,
i have a weird problem, i am running a Fedora Linux OS on Vmware installed
from Windows XP
i have configured samba inside VMware linux (BRIDGED NETWORKING), but when i
tried to access the same from the windows it is telling "cannot be
accessible", i have tried almost all the ways... 
My Windows IP is say 192.168.248.29 and i have taken a free IP from system
admin for my VMware linux running on windows say its IP is 192.168.248.195
and from windows i am trying to access like this
Go to Start menu -> run and type \\192.168.248.195, now it will show the
list of the samba folders but when i double click on the folder it prompts
for username and passwd and when i enter the samba username and passwd it
will popup a message "Cannot be accessed u might now have permissions to
access this" !! :( 
but i have given all the permissions to that folder chmod 777 /home/user -R
and also while configuring samba i have given writable and browsable
permissions , i am using samba version 3.0.21b-2, and i tried stopping
iptables also but even that yielded same result
Please help me to solve this problem thanks.. :)
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Hi friends,
i have a weird problem, i am running a Fedora Linux OS on Vmware installed
from Windows XP
i have configured samba inside VMware linux (BRIDGED NETWORKING), but when i
tried to access the same from the windows it is telling "cannot be
accessible", i have tried almost all the ways...
My Windows IP is say 192.168.248.29 and i have taken a free IP from system
admin for my VMware linux running on windows say its IP is 192.168.248.195
and from windows i am trying to access like this
Go to Start menu -> run and type \\192.168.248.195, now it will show the
list of the samba folders but when i double click on the folder it prompts
for username and passwd and when i enter the samba username and passwd it
will popup a message "Cannot be accessed u might now have permissions to
access this" !! :(
but i have given all the permissions to that folder chmod 777 /home/user -R
and also while configuring samba i have given writable and browsable
permissions , i am using samba version 3.0.21b-2, and i tried stopping
iptables also but even that yielded same result
Please help me to solve this problem thanks.. :)
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are you using smbpasswd, tdbsam, or ldapsam for authentication?  in 
linux can you do mount -t cifs "//192.168.248.195/A_Valid_Share" /mnt
-o
username=user,password=passwd

what sort of errors are you getting in /var/log/samba/log.smbd

gforgcc wrote:
> Hi friends,
> i have a weird problem, i am running a Fedora Linux OS on Vmware installed
> from Windows XP
> i have configured samba inside VMware linux (BRIDGED NETWORKING), but when
i
> tried to access the same from the windows it is telling "cannot be
> accessible", i have tried almost all the ways...
> My Windows IP is say 192.168.248.29 and i have taken a free IP from system
> admin for my VMware linux running on windows say its IP is 192.168.248.195
> and from windows i am trying to access like this
> Go to Start menu -> run and type \\192.168.248.195, now it will show the
> list of the samba folders but when i double click on the folder it prompts
> for username and passwd and when i enter the samba username and passwd it
> will popup a message "Cannot be accessed u might now have permissions
to
> access this" !! :(
> but i have given all the permissions to that folder chmod 777 /home/user -R
> and also while configuring samba i have given writable and browsable
> permissions , i am using samba version 3.0.21b-2, and i tried stopping
> iptables also but even that yielded same result
> Please help me to solve this problem thanks.. :)
>

Hallo, gforgcc,

Du (narendra.ka) meintest am 28.04.08:
>> take out the space between the , and password=abc and the extra / on
>> //home/abc
> when i tried mount -t cifs "//192.168.248.195/home/abc" /mnt -o
> username=abc,password=abc
> it is giving the following error
> mount error 5 = Input/Output error
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page  (e.g man mount.cifs )
Does the workgroup fit?
Has the username or the password any special character?

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut

Helmut Hullen wrote:
> 
> Hallo, gforgcc,
> 
> Does the workgroup fit?
> Has the username or the password any special character?
> 
> Viele Gruesse!
> Helmut
> 
> 
Hi Viele Gruesse, :)
no there are no special charecters in username or password.. just abc and
abc thats it...
and i dint get what is the meaning of Workgroup fit ? you mean to say both
the workgroup in windows and Vmware linux need to be same ?
if that is the case i am not specifying workgroup anywhere while configuring
samba..and can you please tell where to specify workgroup, and how to find
the same in windows that to which workgroup do i belong ? 
thanks... :)
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gforgcc wrote:
> 
> 
> Helmut Hullen wrote:
>> 
>> Hallo, gforgcc,
>> 
>> Does the workgroup fit?
>> Has the username or the password any special character?
>> 
>> Viele Gruesse!
>> Helmut
>> 
>> 
> Hi Viele Gruesse, :)
> no there are no special charecters in username or password.. just abc and
> abc thats it...
> and i dint get what is the meaning of Workgroup fit ? you mean to say both
> the workgroup in windows and Vmware linux need to be same ?
> if that is the case i am not specifying workgroup anywhere while
> configuring samba..and can you please tell where to specify workgroup, and
> how to find the same in windows that to which workgroup do i belong ? 
> thanks... :)
> 
sorry i came to know that i am in my companies domain so there wont be any
workgroup probably...
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Napster wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I had thw same issue with my network....check if the DNS translation for
> the Ip address of the system thats running Samba server.Or there is a work
> around to get this working...
> Check if u\you are able to access the files by going to the run option and
> then entering the ip address 
> start->Run->\\192.168.0.143
> 
> Go to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\ there you would find a file by the
> name hosts add the ip address and also the host name for the server there.
> The file would look like this 
> 
> # Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
> #
> # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
> #
> # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
> # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
> # be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
> # The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
> # space.
> #
> # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
> # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
> #
> # For example:
> #
> #      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
> #       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host
> 
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> 192.168.0.143   napster-server1
> 
> 
> Where 192.168.0.143 is the ip address of the system thats running Samba
> and napter-Server1 the hostname.
> 
> If you are running DNS server then check the configuration file of the
> server.
> 
> 
> Napster:working:
> 
> 
Thanks for the reply Napster,
but i dint get exactly what you are telling.. 
say in my case i am running Vmware linux running Samba of which the IP
address is 192.168.248.195 and hostname is just localhost.localdomain.. so i
added an entry to the file you have said above in windows hosts file.. but
still it is not working. it is telling the same problem..
and can you please tell me where to check the configuratyion file of the DNS
Server ?  
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