using samba

[P-O Blomstrand]

5 dec 05 | v49 | kl. 20.01 skrev 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


Sorry, but this is most probably a Tiger issue! This page offers some  
solutions:

http://www.macwindows.com/tiger.html#SMB1

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