SAMBA plus!

Andrew Mason andrew at assertis.co.uk
Tue Feb 1 00:32:52 MST 2005


On Monday 31 January 2005 8:51 pm, ldicarro at mindspring.com wrote:
> I am trying to set up SAMBA on a local network for 2 pc's (one W2K and the
> other XP) and have had all kinds of troubles. I am to a point where things
> mount and copy, but the files and premissions cannot be edited from the Win
> machines. Here is what I have so far:
>
> Network name is named Home as is my Win boxes.
> Users have accounts on the YDL and in Samba and the names match what they
> are on the Win boxes. Authentication is set to Share as I don't have a
> Kerberos or AD login server. The share point is /var/www/html/
> The permissions are set to rwxrwxr-x
> The owner is root but the group is webauth which all accounts belong to.
>
> Machine info:
> Blue and White G3 w/512MB Ram
>
>
> So when I copy a file to the Samba share that is mounted and try to open it
> for editing in Notepad, I keep getting premission errors when I try to save
> it. Does any one have any experience with this and could help me out?
>
> Also, is YDL Samba different from regular Red Had/Fedora Samba? I installed
> swat and the page claims that the processes are running even though the
> Server Services say they are. I don't think top shows them running, either.
try:
ps -aux | grep smbd
and 
ps -aux | grep nmbd

if they don't show the daemons then its not running

>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> <Louis>
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