samba - Jun 2013 - Win8 account sees its home share, but "does not have permissions to access"

Hello,

I am a beginner to Samba and I RTFMd carefully but cannot get started.

I want to access my user account "mark" home directory on Linux, with
the
same account name on Windows 8.

The user "mark" has the same password on Linux and Windows 8.  In
addition
I did this on Linux
>smbpasswd -a mark
and gave the same password.

Following the manuals on samba website I edited the samba configuration
smb.conf file so:

[global]
        hosts allow = ALL
        client signing = no
        # log files split per-machine:
        log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
        # maximum size of 50KB per log file, then rotate:
        max log size = 50
        security = user

[homes]
        valid users = %S
        read only = No


and successfully started the samba service.

I can then see "mark" share on that Linux machine from Windows, I can
map
it to a drive letter in Windows Explorer, and I also see this:

[root at v64-sw-dev003-mark /]# smbstatus

Samba version 3.6.12-1.fc17
PID     Username      Group         Machine
-------------------------------------------------------------------
14678     mark          mark          mark-pc      (192.168.221.76)

Service      pid     machine       Connected at
-------------------------------------------------------
mark         14678   mark-pc       Fri Jun 28 15:56:39 2013

No locked files



This all looks very good to me, as Samba server sees my client with the
correct username, Windows machine name and IP address.


YET, when I actually try to double-click on the share in the Windows
Explorer, I get an error dialog:


Windows cannot access \\192.168.221.32\mark
You do not have permission to access \\192.168.221.32\mark\. Contact your
network administrator to request access.


192.168.221.32 is the Linux machine address.

Please, what am I doing wrong??

Thank you,

Mark

Mark,

First verify that the posix permissions are good for your home 
directory: ls -lA /home/mark
If those are good, then I would try removing the hosts allow parameter 
in [global].
If that doesn't work, checking the Samba logs is always a good idea.

Dale

On 06/28/2013 6:03 PM, Mark Galeck wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a beginner to Samba and I RTFMd carefully but cannot get started.
>
> I want to access my user account "mark" home directory on Linux,
with the
> same account name on Windows 8.
>
> The user "mark" has the same password on Linux and Windows 8.  In
addition
> I did this on Linux
>
>> smbpasswd -a mark
> and gave the same password.
>
> Following the manuals on samba website I edited the samba configuration
> smb.conf file so:
>
> [global]
>          hosts allow = ALL
>          client signing = no
>          # log files split per-machine:
>          log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>          # maximum size of 50KB per log file, then rotate:
>          max log size = 50
>          security = user
>
> [homes]
>          valid users = %S
>          read only = No
>
>
> and successfully started the samba service.
>
> I can then see "mark" share on that Linux machine from Windows, I
can map
> it to a drive letter in Windows Explorer, and I also see this:
>
> [root at v64-sw-dev003-mark /]# smbstatus
>
> Samba version 3.6.12-1.fc17
> PID     Username      Group         Machine
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 14678     mark          mark          mark-pc      (192.168.221.76)
>
> Service      pid     machine       Connected at
> -------------------------------------------------------
> mark         14678   mark-pc       Fri Jun 28 15:56:39 2013
>
> No locked files
>
>
>
> This all looks very good to me, as Samba server sees my client with the
> correct username, Windows machine name and IP address.
>
>
> YET, when I actually try to double-click on the share in the Windows
> Explorer, I get an error dialog:
>
>
> Windows cannot access \\192.168.221.32\mark
> You do not have permission to access \\192.168.221.32\mark\. Contact your
> network administrator to request access.
>
>
> 192.168.221.32 is the Linux machine address.
>
> Please, what am I doing wrong??
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mark