Hi All: I'm running Mandrake 8.1 (downloaded) and the install went fine. Configuring Samba however is another story. I get the message "could not connect to host - localhost" on the Linux box. I cannot see the network from the Linux system. The Linux system is visable from Win'98SE as are the shares but I cannot access them "password is incorrect". This does not appear to be a single problem but a combination of problems so any guidance would be appreciated. I've searched the faq with no results and read the DOCs and a bunch of other stuff and I'm into day 6 of frustration here. Thanks for the help. Ron Woodall --------------------------------------- Ron Woodall nor@htmlcompendium.org The Compendium of HTML Elements "your essential web publishing resource" - available at/disponible ?: http://au.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Australia) http://www.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Europe and North America)
You should take a look at your Samba log files. They will usually tell you what went wrong behind the scenes. Question: What procedure were you attempting to perform when you got the error "could not connect to host - localhost"? Right off it sounds like Samba isn't recognizing your local system. Usually an error like that would contain the localhost's hostname instead of just localhost, but I could be wrong. Christopher Adams Los Angeles, Ca. -----Original Message----- From: Ron Woodall [mailto:nor@htmlcompendium.org] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 9:58 AM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: "could not connect to host - localhost" Hi All: I'm running Mandrake 8.1 (downloaded) and the install went fine. Configuring Samba however is another story. I get the message "could not connect to host - localhost" on the Linux box. I cannot see the network from the Linux system. The Linux system is visable from Win'98SE as are the shares but I cannot access them "password is incorrect". This does not appear to be a single problem but a combination of problems so any guidance would be appreciated. I've searched the faq with no results and read the DOCs and a bunch of other stuff and I'm into day 6 of frustration here. Thanks for the help. Ron Woodall --------------------------------------- Ron Woodall nor@htmlcompendium.org The Compendium of HTML Elements "your essential web publishing resource" - available at/disponible ?: http://au.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Australia) http://www.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Europe and North America) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
I think I know what your problem is Ron.
Konqueror cannot browse unless you have set up BOTH Samba and
Lisa/Reslisa.
Make sure you do both.
Also in the Kcontrol Panel, you'll need to supply a username and
password that is valid on all of your Windows boxes... I.E. you've
logged in at least once on the Windows boxes with this
username/password...
This should fix your problem.
Christopher Adams
Los Angeles, Ca.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Woodall [mailto:nor@htmlcompendium.org]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 10:20 AM
To: Adams, Christopher; samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: RE: "could not connect to host - localhost"
Hi Christopher:
Thanks for the reply.
At 09:58 AM 12/3/01 -0800, you wrote:
>You should take a look at your Samba log files. They will usually tell
>you what went wrong behind the scenes. Question: What procedure were
>you attempting to perform when you got the error "could not connect to
>host - localhost"?
The log files show nothing. There is no entry in the log for this
date.
I was attempting to browse the network from the Linux machine.
(open file manager [Konqueror with the explorer screen], clicked on "+
Network" then clicked on "+ Local Network." The icon turns to the
spinning
gear and immediately the error message comes up (600 MHz system). After
that, nothing.
>Right off it sounds like Samba isn't recognizing your local
>system. Usually an error like that would contain the localhost's
hostname
>instead of just localhost, but I could be wrong.
Yup, sounds about right on both counts. However, smbd and nmbd are
both running and neither are showing any errors. Nothing noted in the logs.
Thanks for the help. I look forward to your reply.
Ron Woodall
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Ron,
Let me add this:
You might want to use "Komba2" instead of Lisa.
It's simpler and very nice alternative.
Also, LM8.1 Konqueror does not seem to work too well with LISa
Just start it up and it will scan the network for windows shares Right
clicking on a share will mount it (You will have to set the user name and
password first of the remote windows machine)
After mounting a share in komba2 you can view the shares in Konqueror. A
folder called komba will appear in your home directory with the remote
windows shares within it.
Christopher Adams
Los Angeles, Ca.
Starbase Corp.
www.starbase.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Woodall [mailto:nor@htmlcompendium.org]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 10:20 AM
To: Adams, Christopher; samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: RE: "could not connect to host - localhost"
Hi Christopher:
Thanks for the reply.
At 09:58 AM 12/3/01 -0800, you wrote:
>You should take a look at your Samba log files. They will usually tell
>you what went wrong behind the scenes. Question: What procedure were
>you attempting to perform when you got the error "could not connect to
>host - localhost"?
The log files show nothing. There is no entry in the log for this
date.
I was attempting to browse the network from the Linux machine.
(open file manager [Konqueror with the explorer screen], clicked on "+
Network" then clicked on "+ Local Network." The icon turns to the
spinning
gear and immediately the error message comes up (600 MHz system). After
that, nothing.
>Right off it sounds like Samba isn't recognizing your local
>system. Usually an error like that would contain the localhost's
hostname
>instead of just localhost, but I could be wrong.
Yup, sounds about right on both counts. However, smbd and nmbd are
both running and neither are showing any errors. Nothing noted in the logs.
Thanks for the help. I look forward to your reply.
Ron Woodall
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See here is the problem Ron. In KDE versions older than 2.1.0, Samba network browsing worked. With the introduction of the new KDE 2.1.0+ the browsing was bugged. So work arounds have been found. One of them has been using LISA and Komba2. Give me a second and I will see if I can locate where Komba can be found in KDE. It's been a while since I last used it. I'll respond back to you with a location. Christopher Adams Sr. UNIX Network Admin. Los Angeles, Ca. Starbase Corp. www.starbase.com -----Original Message----- From: Ron Woodall [mailto:nor@htmlcompendium.org] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 11:25 AM To: Adams, Christopher; Adams, Christopher; samba@lists.samba.org Subject: RE: "could not connect to host - localhost" Hi Christopher: At 10:50 AM 12/3/01 -0800, Adams, Christopher wrote:>Ron, > >Let me add this: > >You might want to use "Komba2" instead of Lisa.I went looking and couldn't find "Komba2." The only thing I found about Lisa was a setup screen on the Control Panel but couldn't find anything else about it.>It's simpler and very nice alternative. >Also, LM8.1 Konqueror does not seem to work too well with LISa >Just start it up and it will scan the network for windows shares Right >clicking on a share will mount it (You will have to set the user name and >password first of the remote windows machine)Can't even see the windows shares at the moment.>After mounting a share in komba2 you can view the shares in Konqueror. A >folder called komba will appear in your home directory with the remote >windows shares within it.Hmmmm, see above. Thanks again for all your help. Ron Woodall --------------------------------------- Ron Woodall nor@htmlcompendium.org The Compendium of HTML Elements "your essential web publishing resource" - available at/disponible ?: http://au.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Australia) http://www.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Europe and North America) -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
Package: komba2 0.71-6 KDE Samba browser Komba2 is a GUI machine and share browser for the SMB protocol. Komba2 allows you to scan any number of subnets for machines with SMB. The workgroups, machines and share are shown in a tree-view. For each machine you can then view the list of shares, and mount, unmount or browse them. You can also search a machine by name or ip. Ron, You can find it here. Download the RPM and install it. You should be able to browse fine after you have Komba installed. http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/sourceforge/komba/komba2-0.71-1.i686.html Christopher Adams Sr. UNIX Netowrk Admin. Starbase Corp. www.starbase.com -----Original Message----- From: Ron Woodall [mailto:nor@htmlcompendium.org] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 11:25 AM To: Adams, Christopher; Adams, Christopher; samba@lists.samba.org Subject: RE: "could not connect to host - localhost" Hi Christopher: At 10:50 AM 12/3/01 -0800, Adams, Christopher wrote:>Ron, > >Let me add this: > >You might want to use "Komba2" instead of Lisa.I went looking and couldn't find "Komba2." The only thing I found about Lisa was a setup screen on the Control Panel but couldn't find anything else about it.>It's simpler and very nice alternative. >Also, LM8.1 Konqueror does not seem to work too well with LISa >Just start it up and it will scan the network for windows shares Right >clicking on a share will mount it (You will have to set the user name and >password first of the remote windows machine)Can't even see the windows shares at the moment.>After mounting a share in komba2 you can view the shares in Konqueror. A >folder called komba will appear in your home directory with the remote >windows shares within it.Hmmmm, see above. Thanks again for all your help. Ron Woodall --------------------------------------- Ron Woodall nor@htmlcompendium.org The Compendium of HTML Elements "your essential web publishing resource" - available at/disponible ?: http://au.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Australia) http://www.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Europe and North America) -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
To be honest if his error were not "could not connect to host - localhost" when trying to use Kon. then it could be either a security issue or a passwords issue. But the error he gets when using Kon. is quite evident. That is a "known" bug in KDE that has been reported time and time again. We have to look at the path he used to get this error. Christian's advice is still a good idea to look in to. It may not be as obvious as we think it is with the GUI browsing and could in fact be security, but I do recommend installing the Komba2 nevertheless. I'm almost positive that your problem lies within the browsing limitations of Konq. and not security issues. Thusly, I choose to help directly you in eliminating your GUI as an issue first. Christopher Adams Sr. UNIX Network Admin. Starbase Corp. www.starbase.com -----Original Message----- From: Christian Barth [mailto:barth@cck.uni-kl.de] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 11:48 AM To: Adams, Christopher; Adams, Christopher; samba@lists.samba.org; Ron Woodall Subject: RE: "could not connect to host - localhost" I would forget about the nice graphic user interfaces to start with. In the samba distribtion there is a file called DIAGNOSIS.txt. Go through it step by step and tell us were it fails. Probably a lot helpfull guys out here don't know the specific GUI's but what happens behind them. What security have you choosen during the Mandrake install? May be there is a firewall blocking the prots. (RedHat likes to do so). What does your smb.conf look like? Are you using encrypted passwords? If yes: Have you set them up for the user? To get started with samba I would run plaintext passwords and patch the windows clients. Once you are familiar with it you can switch to the more secure encrypted password needed for the domain stuff. Christian> Hi Christopher: > > At 10:50 AM 12/3/01 -0800, Adams, Christopher wrote: > > >Ron, > > > >Let me add this: > > > >You might want to use "Komba2" instead of Lisa. > > I went looking and couldn't find "Komba2." The only thing I found> about Lisa was a setup screen on the Control Panel but couldn't find > anything else about it. > > >It's simpler and very nice alternative. > >Also, LM8.1 Konqueror does not seem to work too well with LISa > >Just start it up and it will scan the network for windows shares Right > >clicking on a share will mount it (You will have to set the user name and > >password first of the remote windows machine) > > Can't even see the windows shares at the moment. > > >After mounting a share in komba2 you can view the shares in Konqueror. A > >folder called komba will appear in your home directory with the remote > >windows shares within it. > > Hmmmm, see above. > > Thanks again for all your help. > > Ron Woodall > > --------------------------------------- > Ron Woodall > nor@htmlcompendium.org > > The Compendium of HTML Elements > "your essential web publishing resource" > > - available at/disponible ?: > http://au.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Australia) > http://www.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Europe and North America) > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >_(_)_ wWWWw _ @@@@ (_)@(_) vVVVv _ @@@@ (___) _(_)_ @@()@@ wWWWw (_)\ (___) _(_)_ @@()@@ Y (_)@(_) @@@@ (___) `|/ Y (_)@(_) @@@@ \|/ (_)\ / Y \| \|/ /(_) \| |/ | \ | \ |/ | / \ | / \|/ |/ \| \|/ jgs|// \\|/// \\\|//\\\|/// \|/// \\\|// \\|// \\\|// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
Hi Kohei:>Does typing "smb://[computer name]" in the "Location" field work?Interesting comment. I tried it and it came back with nothing but it seemed content that it had found the network because the gear stopped spinning. I checked to be sure that the Windows box had shares set and it does but I cannot see them on the Linux box. Is this progress? Ron Woodall --------------------------------------- Ron Woodall nor@htmlcompendium.org The Compendium of HTML Elements "your essential web publishing resource" - available at/disponible ?: http://au.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Australia) http://www.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Europe and North America)
I ran into a similar problem. I was trying to use SWAT. I connect to the Internet through a proxy server and forgot to include localhost in my "bypass proxy" settings for Konqueror. DNS can't resolve the localhost. Adding your local network info to your "bypass proxy" settings for Konqueror may do the trick. Dave Orenstein, CNE Project Engineer/Maintenance Engineer ABC Radio Network ABCRN 212 456-5545 FAX 212 456-5622
That is a very good idea Dave. On that note Ron what does your /etc/hosts file have as an entry for "localhost"? -----Original Message----- From: Orenstein, Dave [mailto:Dave.Orenstein@abc.com] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 12:27 PM To: 'samba@lists.samba.org' Cc: 'nor@htmlcompendium.org' Subject: RE: "could not connect to host - localhost" I ran into a similar problem. I was trying to use SWAT. I connect to the Internet through a proxy server and forgot to include localhost in my "bypass proxy" settings for Konqueror. DNS can't resolve the localhost. Adding your local network info to your "bypass proxy" settings for Konqueror may do the trick. Dave Orenstein, CNE Project Engineer/Maintenance Engineer ABC Radio Network ABCRN 212 456-5545 FAX 212 456-5622 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
Ron, That looks ok. Now what does the /etc/hosts file say for your "hostname" of this box you are working on? I'm trying to compose a list and strike out all of the possibilities. This is looking more and more like the KDE bug that I first had thought it was. -----Original Message----- From: Ron Woodall [mailto:nor@htmlcompendium.org] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 12:49 PM To: Adams, Christopher; Orenstein, Dave; 'samba@lists.samba.org' Subject: RE: "could not connect to host - localhost" Hi Christopher: At 12:31 PM 12/3/01 -0800, Adams, Christopher wrote:>That is a very good idea Dave. On that note Ron what does your /etc/hosts >file have as an entry for "localhost"?Yup, to wit: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain, localhost I've tried removing localhost.localdomain, but no change so I left it in there. Thanks guys. Ron --------------------------------------- Ron Woodall nor@htmlcompendium.org The Compendium of HTML Elements "your essential web publishing resource" - available at/disponible ?: http://au.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Australia) http://www.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Europe and North America) -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
Ok.. So this box is on a private network? It shows #primary windows system Are you dual booting the linux O.S. on the same box as a Windows O.S.? -----Original Message----- From: Ron Woodall [mailto:nor@htmlcompendium.org] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 12:58 PM To: Adams, Christopher; 'samba@lists.samba.org' Subject: RE: "could not connect to host - localhost" Hi Christopher: At 12:47 PM 12/3/01 -0800, Adams, Christopher wrote:>Ron, > >That looks ok. Now what does the /etc/hosts file say for your "hostname" >of this box you are working on?192.168.0.1, abner.htmlcompendium.org. abner #primary windows system>I'm trying to compose a list and strike out all of the >possibilities. This is looking more and more like the KDE bug that I >first had thought it was.I'd love to compose the list myself. I'm usually the one giving the help. Thanks for all of this. Ron --------------------------------------- Ron Woodall nor@htmlcompendium.org The Compendium of HTML Elements "your essential web publishing resource" - available at/disponible ?: http://au.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Australia) http://www.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Europe and North America) -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
Nice Setup *grin*.
Ron, to be honest. I'm really sticking with Komba2 on this one. I've
seen
this 1000 times since the newer versions of KDE came out. It's a bug in KDE
that is preventing you from browsing.
I really recommend that you just install that Komba2 RPM so we can at least
get that possibility out of the picture. I have a good feeling about this.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Woodall [mailto:nor@htmlcompendium.org]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 1:17 PM
To: Adams, Christopher; Adams, Christopher; 'samba@lists.samba.org'
Subject: RE: "could not connect to host - localhost"
Hi Chrisopher:
Thanks for the reply.
At 12:55 PM 12/3/01 -0800, Adams, Christopher wrote:
>Ok..
>
>So this box is on a private network?
Yes. It is a 10/100BaseT through a multi-speed hub.
It has 1 Windows '98SE box (677MHz & 100Mbs), Linux Mandrake
8.2
(600 MHz & 100Mbs), Windows '98 (120MHz & 100Mbs) and Windows
'95 (486DX/2
& 10Mbs.)
>It shows #primary windows system
>
>Are you dual booting the linux O.S. on the same box as a Windows O.S.?
Nope, each system is dedicated to that operating system. The 677 &
120 MHz systems provide the root functions, i.e. triple-head support,
dual-modems, printers, scanner, across the network. This is functionning
now. The 120 also serves as the backup.
However, I need to start moving all functions over to the Linux
box for development. Fewer perl problems on the Linux box.
Next?
Ron
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Sorry! I forgot how I went around in circles trying to find the settings. On my system it was under the following menu tree: Gnome Foot (Start) KDE Menus settings webbrowsing proxies Assuming that you're using a proxy, if you entered the proxy info elsewhere it will appear in this browser proxy configuration utility. Enable the option [X] No proxy for and add both localhost and your local net, for example: localhost, *.MY_LOCAL_NETWORK.EXT substituting your network name and the appropriate .com or .org or .net or whatever to make your entire local network browseable.> -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Woodall [SMTP:nor@htmlcompendium.org] > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 3:49 PM > To: Adams, Christopher; Orenstein, Dave; 'samba@lists.samba.org' > Subject: RE: "could not connect to host - localhost" > > Hi Christopher: > > At 12:31 PM 12/3/01 -0800, Adams, Christopher wrote: > > >That is a very good idea Dave. On that note Ron what does your > /etc/hosts > >file have as an entry for "localhost"? > > Yup, to wit: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain, localhost > > I've tried removing localhost.localdomain, but no change so I > left > it in there. > > Thanks guys. > > Ron > > --------------------------------------- > Ron Woodall > nor@htmlcompendium.org > > The Compendium of HTML Elements > "your essential web publishing resource" > > - available at/disponible ?: > http://au.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Australia) > http://www.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Europe and North America)
> The first problem I've encountered is running testparm as > instructed in DIAGNOSIS.txt. > > testparm smb.conf returns an error cannot find smb.conf"testparm smb.conf" will only work if your current directory is the one with the smb.conf. Otherwiese you have to give the full path to the config file.> testparm without smb.conf returns a different errorthis way testparm looks at the default place for the smb.conf, whitch is defined at compaile time.> Unknown parameter encountered: "use client driver" > Processing Section "[homes]" > Processing Section "[printers]" > Processing Section "[public]" > Loaded services file OK. > > I also hit enter and it gave me a dump of the service definitions. However, > it lists all of the defaults but is not what I see in my smb.conf file. It > is much shorter.Usually smb.conf is shorter and you should see your enteries in smb.conf and the defaults of all other parameters as output of testparam. If you have set some thing in your smb.conf and it is not shwon by testparam, then you probably have to smb.conf's (and two sambas) on your box. Do a locate smb.conf to check (once your box has been up long enough to be sure that the database of locate is uptodate). Have you done a full install of Mandrake and then installed samba form the soures, with the rpm from samba.org? For the start I would ignore your "Unknown parameter" message: If you have written this parameter in to your smb.conf, delete it because your samba version is not new enough for this parameter. If it is a default from your install, its a not serious bug in the distribution. But the unknown parameter message indicates for me that you have a version missmach.> >What does your smb.conf look like? > > Can't copy it from the Linux box. Any suggestions how I might do > this?If samba is not working you may use ftp to move files. Or disketts.> >Are you using encrypted passwords? > > Yes. > > >If yes: Have you set them up for the user? > > How do I do that? I've tried creating users using the GUI but that > ain't working either :-(As root: smbpasswd -a user probably followed by smbpasswd -e user (some samba versions had a bug were a new user was disabled by defautl, just to be sure). Note: The user must exist a unix-user, e.g. it must be in /etc/passwd. You may use adduser (or useradd) to do this. I don't know if the smbpasswd file must exist before the first user is created. If so, may be (I guess!!) a "touch smbpasswd" in the right directory may help, probably followed by setting the file permissions. Hope to get you started Christian ------- End of forwarded message ------- _(_)_ wWWWw _ @@@@ (_)@(_) vVVVv _ @@@@ (___) _(_)_ @@()@@ wWWWw (_)\ (___) _(_)_ @@()@@ Y (_)@(_) @@@@ (___) `|/ Y (_)@(_) @@@@ \|/ (_)\ / Y \| \|/ /(_) \| |/ | \ | \ |/ | / \ | / \|/ |/ \| \|/ jgs|// \\|/// \\\|//\\\|/// \|/// \\\|// \\|// \\\|// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hi All: At 09:04 AM 12/4/01 +0100, Christian Barth wrote:>Have you done a full install of Mandrake and then >installed samba form the soures, with the rpm from samba.org?Full install of Mandrake 8.1, downloaded from the Mandrake site and burned my own CDs. I did several installs on two systems to get it (sort of) right -- I hope. Samba was included with the distribution.>For the start I would ignore your "Unknown parameter" message: If you >have written this parameter in to your smb.conf, delete it because >your samba version is not new enough for this parameter. If it is a >default from your install, its a not serious bug in the distribution. >But the unknown parameter message indicates for me that you have a >version missmach.Both smbd and nmbd show versions 2.2.1a and were included in the Mandrake distribution. I've gone part-way through the DIAGNOSIS.txt and these are the results: Test 1: As per my note above, it gives the message you note above: "Unknown parameter: use client driver" Test 2: I pinged 192.168.0.2 (Linux box) from 192.168.0.1 (Windoz box) I get no packets lost. The same is true of the reverse, Windoz to Linux. Test 3: I ran "smbclient -L Windoz" on the Linux box and got the list of available shares and the workgroup name. SMBD is definately running and getting out to the rest of the world. Test 4: I ran nmblookup -B Windoz_SAMBA_. All I got back was the "Unknown parameter encountered: use client driver" DIAGNOSIS.txt says that I have nmbd not installed properly. Ok, I go looking for nmbd and found it. Now what do I do? I went looking for anything that could tell me how to install it properly and nada, niet and nutt'n. Next, I did a modprobe -c and it shows "alias eth0 8139too" as the entry and driver for my card. This should be correct. Exploration showed that this is the most recent driver for that card. "lsmod" shows the 8139too is there, and in use (by autoclean) "lspci" also shows the card. FTP doesn't work at any level and I haven't figured out how to write to a diskette yet. How do I write to a diskette? Don't laugh. I'm Windozed.> > >Are you using encrypted passwords? > > > > Yes. > > > > >If yes: Have you set them up for the user? > > > > How do I do that? I've tried creating users using the GUI but > that > > ain't working either :-( >As root: >smbpasswd -a user >probably followed by >smbpasswd -e userOK, done that for two users, one the same as the Windoz machine name and the other. "Oh happy days are here again!" I went to the Windoz box, viewed the network neighbourhood and clicked on the Linux box and voila it was there. Then I looked at the shares and my directory was there too. I clicked on the directory and it was there too. (that's only two toos) Then I tried to create a folder from the Windoz box and it told me I didn't have enough permissions. I went to the Linux box, made sure the owner had the whole ball of wax. Tried again and still, no change. Bummer! Go back to the Linux box hoping for a miraculous cure and it was still suffering the same problem -- "Could not connect to host -- localhost." Time to hang my head, get depressed, feel sorry for myself. There that's all the selfpity I'm allowed. Now on with the job at hand. Where do I turn now?>(some samba versions had a bug were a new user was disabled by >defautl, just to be sure). Note: The user must exist a unix-user, >e.g. it must be in /etc/passwd. You may use adduser (or useradd) to >do this. I don't know if the smbpasswd file must exist before the >first user is created. If so, may be (I guess!!) a "touch smbpasswd" >in the right directory may help, probably followed by setting the >file permissions.Hey, I liked smbpasswd. Knock it off with adduser or useradd or stuff. I feel like a corkscrew now. Do you really want to turn me into a nut case ;-?>Hope to get you startedI was already started, and raring to go. It's this !@#$%^&*()!!! machine that isn't ;-) Thanks for all your help. When I get this part working, I'll go back and get Komba installed, if I still need it. Ron Woodall --------------------------------------- Ron Woodall nor@htmlcompendium.org The Compendium of HTML Elements "your essential web publishing resource" - available at/disponible ?: http://au.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Australia) http://www.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm (Europe and North America)