Comments on: Samba: How do you install and set up Samba in linux? [Redhat Enterprise(RHEL), CentOS, Fedora]

By: J.P.

J.P. — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:38:53 +0000

For people getting persistent password errors please be sure that you are using the net use command correctly. If it prompts you for the username then windows will submit it incorrectly.

By: Sunny Walia

Sunny Walia — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:58:37 +0000

http://crazytoon.com/2007/02/05/windows-vista-installation-update-2/ check that post.. might be useful.

By: jessem

jessem — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:42:59 +0000

I keep getting the error:

system error 64 has occured.

The specified name is no longer available.

is this a netbios issue with vista?

By: harpreet

harpreet — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:19:42 +0000

Works great, make sure you have smae work group name in both linux and windows configuration

By: dinesh rana

dinesh rana — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:17:29 +0000

i want to install linux services eg samba plz how to install samba

By: mehnaz

mehnaz — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:39:53 +0000

i have followed the instructions up to /etc/init.d/smb restart, at this point i am getting error no such file or directory. i have checked init.d but am not able fo find any thing related to samba there lika smb or samba,,i have no idea what should i do as a am totally newbie in linux:(

By: Muc

Muc — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:22:57 +0000

Hi:

I’m having a problem with this tutorial, I configured the samba server and it seems to be working, but when I try to access it from a WinXP I get a logon failure: unknon user name o bad password. I’m trying to enter as smbuser.
It gets better . I’m using a VM running RHEL 5 on a WinXP host and I’m trying to access a particular directory from the physical machine to the VM… any ideas? Thanks!
P.S.: The other way around is working just fine. I believe it must be a pwd problem, but I just can’t figure it out…

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By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:30:59 +0000

Thanks, this was very helpful.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:44:12 +0000

I had a ton of issues connecting… “wrkgrp is not accessible. you might not have permission to use this resource…The device not connected.

My fix was actually disabling the SELinux in the firewall.

system-config-securitylevel-tui (Opens the firewall)
- Disabled
- SELinux – disabled

By: Paul B.

Paul B. — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:28:23 +0000

Yes, it looks curious to start with, but we are not *editing* the config file, but writing a whole *new* one with only the skeleton commands!

KISS philosophy.

I’m presently having problems getting SMB to work on Fedora 9. It’s running, share mode, null passwords, suitable workgroup, but just can’t be seen in N. Neighbourhood.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:11:15 +0000

Thanks for correcting my typo. Still can’t access samba share though.

By: Sunny Walia

Sunny Walia — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:57:42 +0000

Jon, just type net use

Nothing should follow after use

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:58:58 +0000

I’ve following the above instructions, except the net use; to check if the share exists I used \\, to see if there are any shares however, from my WinXP maching I’m getting an error:
\\
Network path not found.

The same IP address is returning a ping reply. Any ideas?

By: jp

jp — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:36:17 +0000

I have followed above smb.conf and i restarted the smb server after that i tried to access from win xp machine. I opened my network places it shows Wrkgrb i.e name of the work group we mentioned in the smb.conf file It shows error message like “wrkgrp is not accessible. you might not have permission to use this resource……………The device not connected.

I tried in the explorer typing \\ipaddress of linux box . it tells windows can not find.

As mentioned in the via cmd it says

C:\Documents and Settings\smbuser>net use z:\\10.0.0.100\share /user:smbuser
System error 67 has occurred.

The network name cannot be found.

I tried so mamy times but failed.

Please find out my mistake

By: Sunny Walia

Sunny Walia — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:47:03 +0000

Robert, of course it is bad to force root but as i said in the post: NOTE: This set up is very “open” and should not be used on servers which are facing the world. This is for private network where you trust all the computers and its users.

This is for people to get samba setup and working and take it from there.

By: Robert Swan

Robert Swan — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:27:14 +0000

Forcing samba users to be root???

That is a BAD idea!

By: manit

manit — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:44:02 +0000

make sure the directory you are sharing exists /home/share and set with the proper security settings.

great instructions!

By: Sunny Walia

Sunny Walia — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:25:08 +0000

You should try it out Jon. Works fine. Thats why you do “vi smb.conf”

By: Jonathan Haddad

Jonathan Haddad — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:54:31 +0000

I think michael was right.. it won’t work if you move the configuration file. What will it read if there’s no smb.conf?

By: CrazyToon

CrazyToon — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:39:08 +0000

Tyler,
Can you:
tail /var/log/messages
and see what errors you are getting. Are you using windows XP? or vista? how are you mapping the drive? via explorer or cmd prompt?

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:00:49 +0000

Great instructions!
I’m having password issues even after resetting passwd and smbpasswd multiple times, any ideas? iptables set to allow…

By: CrazyToon

CrazyToon — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:01:11 +0000

Michael, yes they do. done it many times.

By: Michael Hendrickx

Michael Hendrickx — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:28:15 +0000

cd /etc/samba
mv smb.conf smb.conf.backup
vi smb.conf

Quick update, you might wanna do a CP instead of an MV, or the above series of commands won’t work.

By: Nick Berzenji

Nick Berzenji — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:52:06 +0000

Thank you very much. Your Instructions were excellent.

Thank you.

Nick