samba - Oct 2002 - strange behavior maybe dependent on valid users

Hi!

My problem:

I have a network with many workgroups and my samba server 3.0alpha21cvs 
is the only member of one of that workgroups.
If I went to the network neighborhood and tried to open the workgroup of 
my samba server I got an error message saying that the workgroup 
"mygroup" was not available.
So I minimized the settings in the global section of my smb.conf and I 
was able to open "mygroup".
I reactivated the most important options like "interfaces" and
"hosts
allow", which didn't seem to be the problem.
But when I reactivated "valid users" containing 4 users, I was not
able
to browse "mygroup" any more.

So, is it possible, that the ability to open a workgroup with only one 
samba server depends on the value of "valid users"?
Do you have any other ideas, how to solve that problem?

Thanks
Willi Mann

At 17:23 06-10-2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi!
>
>My problem:
>
>I have a network with many workgroups and my samba server 3.0alpha21cvs is 
>the only member of one of that workgroups.
>If I went to the network neighborhood and tried to open the workgroup of 
>my samba server I got an error message saying that the workgroup
"mygroup"
>was not available.
>So I minimized the settings in the global section of my smb.conf and I was 
>able to open "mygroup".
>I reactivated the most important options like "interfaces" and
"hosts
>allow", which didn't seem to be the problem.
>But when I reactivated "valid users" containing 4 users, I was not
able to
>browse "mygroup" any more.
         First thing, have you checked that samba 3.0 is not the problem? 
Have you tried 2.2.5?

         Bruno Ferreira

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Willi Mann wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> My problem:
> 
> I have a network with many workgroups and my samba server 3.0alpha21cvs
> is the only member of one of that workgroups.
> If I went to the network neighborhood and tried to open the workgroup of
> my samba server I got an error message saying that the workgroup
> "mygroup" was not available.
> So I minimized the settings in the global section of my smb.conf and I
> was able to open "mygroup".
> I reactivated the most important options like "interfaces" and
"hosts
> allow", which didn't seem to be the problem.
> But when I reactivated "valid users" containing 4 users, I was
not able
> to browse "mygroup" any more.
> 
> So, is it possible, that the ability to open a workgroup with only one
> samba server depends on the value of "valid users"?
> Do you have any other ideas, how to solve that problem?
A *global* 'valid users' will need to include the guest account, as this
is how some of these operations are conducted.

Andrew Bartlett

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