Daniel,
We love helping folks but we are not psychics.
What version of samba?
What OS platform?
Did you build samba yourself? If so, how?
If not, wher did you obtain the binary package?
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Daniel Levesque wrote:
>
> I need help with SAMBA.
> After editing the smb.conf file manually,
> after trying to edit the file with SWAT,
> after trying to setup SAMBA with webmin...
> Well, nothing works! i see the server icon from distant pc but i just
can't
> logon
> >From the server itself, i can go in a terminal and isue:
> smbclient -L localhost
> and i see the share, the master is the server itself, the workgroup is the
> good one.
Looks like something IS working! So, do you have a firewall?
What is in your smb.cofn file?
> >From the client,
> i have a loggon screen but that's it... can't logon
>
> i've try to log with xp: nothing
> i've boot on W98 and it try to log on and i see that it tries on:
> serverSAMBA/IPC$
The IPC$ share is rather important - that's how when you browse a remote
machine for shares it gets that information.
> is that the problem?
Can't answer this, not enough information! What is in your samba log
files?
> Should an anonymous login work, i also tried that but without success
> Servername\anonymous without psw again it doesn't work...
Not the account anonymous unless you have created an account called
'anonymous'. Have you read "The entire HOWTO collection" link
that is
available from the SWAT home page?
- John T.
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org