using samba

[Taylan Pince]

hello again,

yes i am using the user-level security. after following your  
suggestions, i still wasn't able to connect, then i thought about my  
firewall settings and turned the firewall off on the linux machine.  
now i am able to connect to the server with smbclient through the  
terminal on os x. however, when i try to connect through the finder  
(go -> connect to server), i manage to connect to the server, i get a  
username/password screen, and when i put the user's password in, i  
get an authentication error.

i am using the smpasswd for creating the users, and they work fine  
through the terminal. i am pretty sure os x should be able to connect  
to the server directly, but i am not sure where i am making a mistake.

thanks again.

cheers,
taylan


On Dec 04, 2005, at 11:35, Collin O'Neill wrote:

>    Can you tell us what security method you are using? It would  
> help if you listed the steps you used to add users and configure  
> your shares.  SMB is cool but it's pretty complex. Most likely you  
> will be using user-level security (default), but if you are in a  
> Windows NT4 or Active Domain environment you'll be trying to use  
> domain or ADS security.  I'm going to assume you are using user- 
> level security and that you've added the user using the smbpasswd  
> command.
>    First, try connecting with any valid user name in your smbpasswd  
> file using the -U switch instead of just connecting through the  
> secure shell:
>
> smbclient -L localhost -U [username]
>
>    If the user is in the smbpasswd file you should get the listing  
> of shares along with private directories for the user. Also check  
> that the shares are world-readable as specified in smb.conf (i.e.  
> read only = no or writeable = yes) and permissions for the share  
> are 0777 or 0766.  Restrict access after you've got authorization  
> working.
>    From your Mac, open the terminal and connect through the command  
> line:
>
> smbclient //[host]/[share]
>
> Here's the corresponding page in the official HOWTO:
>
> http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ 
> install.html#id2520661
>
> -Collin