samba - Feb 2001 - Newbie: Need help

I am new to Samba and am trying to install it on a Solaris 8 server
to a NT desktop.  I downloaded the binaries and installed them.  I have
the simplest smb.conf possible.  I can see the shares and and have
testparms, which ran sucessfully.  However, when I try to get to the
share I get an error 67 the network name cannot be found.
    I think it may have to do with the passwds but I have a local
account on the Sun machine and NT and have set encrypted passwd = yes.
    Here is a copy of my test smb.conf:
  encrypt passwords=yes
  netbios name=servername
  workgroup=WinWorkgroupname
  [homes]
    I have gotten a few responses, but unfortunately nothing has
worked.  The message I get in the log file is:
[2001/02/14 11:01:06, 0] smbd/service.c:(214)          
  NT_client-name (IP Adress of client) couldn't find service homes
   ANy help would be GREATLY appreciated.  TIA for the help

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So you do have nmbd and smbd listening on port 137 and 139?
Make sure they are either via the /etc/inetd.conf setup or
by setting up a script to kick off nmbd -D and smbd -D.

Also, get SWAT setup and running, it will make life much easier,
at least it did for me.

To setup authentication to an NT domain, you have to run:
(This is from the docs/textdocs/DOMAIN_MEMBER.txt doc)

In order to join the domain, first stop all Samba daemons and run the
command

smbpasswd -j DOM -r DOMPDC

as we are joining the domain DOM and the PDC for that domain (the only
machine that has write access to the domain SAM database) is DOMPDC. If
this is
successful you will see the message:

smbpasswd: Joined domain DOM.

You'll have to get your NT admins to allow you to join the domain
first and get the domain name and domain server's hostname.

Here is the [global] section of my smb.conf from
/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf,
this was version 2.0.7 of Samba compile on this box running Sun Solaris
5.8:

# Global parameters
[global]
        workgroup = DOMAIN01
        netbios name = SERVER01
        server string = Server01
        security = DOMAIN
        encrypt passwords = Yes
        update encrypted = Yes
        password server = domdev00
        debug level = 2
        log file = /var/samba/log/log.%m
        max log size = 50
        dns proxy = No

And then make your shares available to whoever needs access:

[appshare]
        comment = Apps files
        path = /home/apps
        valid users = @appsgrp
        writeable = Yes
        guest ok = No

Check your /etc/passwd for valid users:

user01:x:1002:10:Samba User:/dev/null:/dev/null

This is essentially a "null" user, you couldn't login with this,
but NT and samba need make they're allowed to access the system.

And, if you use groups like above, check /etc/group:

appsgrp::15:user01,user02

That should get you started.  I probably left something out, but
I just went through this with help from someone else on the list
and it's *sorta* fresh in my mind (-: But I'm sure the list will
help fill in the blanks.

HTH,

Daniel