samba - Apr 2002 - help with basics

I am new to linux and Samba.  I have a box with Slackware 8.0 (no xwindows)
and Samba (that came on the CD) installed.  I am useing the
/etc/samba/smb.config-sample remaned to smb.conf file for my configuration
file for Samba to learn on.  I have read many how-to's and article on the
net to the point that I am only getting more frustrated and confussed.  I
would like to start out with a few basic questions that I just dont seem to
fully understand from what I have read.  I am useing a Win2K box to test
Samba with.  I can browse through network neighborhood to the
"slacknet"
workgroup, but get the errors for account autorization errors or access
denied.  I can even do find computer and see the system netbios name of the
slackware box, but still no access.
1. how does the line "guest account = pcguest" affect things if left
commented out or uncommented.
2. can someone tell me what option for the line "security = " I need
to use
if I want Samba to ask for a user name and password when I try to access it
from my win2k box.  I have created a local user with "adduser" and
added it
to the samba user list with "smbpasswd", but it never asks for login
info
when I try to connect to samba.  the user account I created was
'guest01".
3. I have a section that reads
[public]
  path=/usr/somewhere/else/public
  public=yes
  only guest=yes
  writable=yes
  printable=no
Is this good enough or does anything need to be changed?

Thanks so much for your patience with a newbie,
David

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 23:33, David McBride wrote:
> I am new to linux and Samba.  I have a box with Slackware 8.0 (no xwindows)
> and Samba (that came on the CD) installed.  I am useing the
> /etc/samba/smb.config-sample remaned to smb.conf file for my configuration
> file for Samba to learn on.  I have read many how-to's and article on
the
> net to the point that I am only getting more frustrated and confussed.  I
> would like to start out with a few basic questions that I just dont seem to
> fully understand from what I have read.  I am useing a Win2K box to test
> Samba with.  I can browse through network neighborhood to the
"slacknet"
> workgroup, but get the errors for account autorization errors or access
> denied.  I can even do find computer and see the system netbios name of the
> slackware box, but still no access.
if your w2k is sp2 then you need to apply the signorseal reg patch
its in the sourceball
> 1. how does the line "guest account = pcguest" affect things if
left
> commented out or uncommented.
if you don't want guest access comment out that line
and also set map to guest = never
> 2. can someone tell me what option for the line "security = " I
need to use
> if I want Samba to ask for a user name and password when I try to access it
> from my win2k box.  I have created a local user with "adduser"
and added it
> to the samba user list with "smbpasswd", but it never asks for
login info
> when I try to connect to samba.  the user account I created was
'guest01".
security=user
> 3. I have a section that reads
> [public]
>   path=/usr/somewhere/else/public
make sure this is a valid path 
>   public=yes
you don't need this
>   only guest=yes 
this is going to screw you up - remove it
>   writable=yes
>   printable=no
no need for this line
> Is this good enough or does anything need to be changed?
> 
> Thanks so much for your patience with a newbie,
don't worry - this will all seem very easy to you in a couple of days.

brad

Start by setting security = share until you can log on to the server, 
then worry about authentication.
Make sure that you either have no firewall running on the server, or 
that ports 137 to 139 are open from your local network to the server.

David McBride wrote:
>I am new to linux and Samba.  I have a box with Slackware 8.0 (no xwindows)
>and Samba (that came on the CD) installed.  I am useing the
>/etc/samba/smb.config-sample remaned to smb.conf file for my configuration
>file for Samba to learn on.  I have read many how-to's and article on
the
>net to the point that I am only getting more frustrated and confussed.  I
>would like to start out with a few basic questions that I just dont seem to
>fully understand from what I have read.  I am useing a Win2K box to test
>Samba with.  I can browse through network neighborhood to the
"slacknet"
>workgroup, but get the errors for account autorization errors or access
>denied.  I can even do find computer and see the system netbios name of the
>slackware box, but still no access.
>1. how does the line "guest account = pcguest" affect things if
left
>commented out or uncommented.
>2. can someone tell me what option for the line "security = " I
need to use
>if I want Samba to ask for a user name and password when I try to access it
>from my win2k box.  I have created a local user with "adduser" and
added it
>to the samba user list with "smbpasswd", but it never asks for
login info
>when I try to connect to samba.  the user account I created was
'guest01".
>3. I have a section that reads
>[public]
>  path=/usr/somewhere/else/public
>  public=yes
>  only guest=yes
>  writable=yes
>  printable=no
>Is this good enough or does anything need to be changed?
>
>Thanks so much for your patience with a newbie,
>David
>

Thanks for all the help, it works now.
I just need to tweek it for my specific needs now, and setup security and
stuff.

Thanks again,
David