Many Thanks for all the replies ... Turned out that all I needed to do was an "smbpasswd -a jan" and re-enter my password.
At first I tried the settings you suggested ... I printed out your email and my smb.conf and compared them line by line. The differences were very small. Below is the smb.conf that gets setup via the NetInst routines. The "encrypt passwords" does not show up in the smb.conf and yet when you go to http://localhost:901 and click on the Globals button it does show "encrypt passwords = YES". You suggested that under [homes] both "browseable" and "writeable" should be YES. I changed the "browseable" to YES, but couldn't find a "writable" as a choice under either the "Basic" or "Advanced" views. That change didn't make any difference, so I ploughed on and filled in the "hosts allow" field as you suggested. This change also didn't work, however it made the machine "think" longer when I tried to login. Before the response was instantaneous, this time it took a good 30 or 40 seconds to refuse access. "socket options" isn't a choice under the "Basic" view, but is under "Advanced" and mine was set the same as yours, but it doesn't show in my smb.conf. It appears that if it is a Samba default value it doesn't show in the smb.conf file? Only after doing the "smbpasswd -a jan" in Applications -> Accessories -> Root Terminal did I get to access the \home\jan folder. I changed everything back the original smb.conf settings and login from my Win Xp machines. Interestingly from the Win Xp machine I can see a whole bunch of files and folders with names that start with a "." that I can't see from the Gnome desktop. # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2007/04/25 07:17:31 [global] workgroup = SFCMC server string = %h server obey pam restrictions = Yes passdb backend = tdbsam passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . syslog = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 dns proxy = No wins support = Yes panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d invalid users = root include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0700 printable = Yes browseable = No [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /var/lib/samba/printers -----Original Message----- From: P Kapat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 25, 2007 5:53 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Newbie Samba help > You probably need to create the user for Samba too, via smbpasswd. > > As I said, please send your /etc/samba/smb.conf if you want more help. As Dave was suggesting, you need to modify smb.conf. There are a few GUIs that do that for you (http://us4.samba.org/samba/GUI/). Its easier to edit the file for small purposes like this, if you know what you want. Edit you /etc/samba/smb.conf to look like this: (this is mine; remember to undo the linebreaks that are caused by this mail text.) [global] # change the WORKGROUP to whatever you see from XP Network Neighborhood. workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = %h server # the following line was added/changed encrypt passwords = true obey pam restrictions = Yes passdb backend = tdbsam passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . syslog = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 dns proxy = No panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d invalid users = root # 192.168.a.b is the IP of my XP machine, replace a, b accordingly hosts allow = localhost, 192.168.a.b socket options = TCP_NODELAY load printers = No [homes] comment = Home Directories create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 browseable = Yes writable = Yes This should work with the defualt "Jan" passwd, otherwise, use smbpasswd Jan at the comand line and provide a password (need not be the one you are using for usual login, but helps to keep it same). I generally map a network drive to the HOME directory of the samba server (Debian box). HTH -- Regards PK -------------------------------------- http://counter.li.org #402424 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.463 / Virus Database: 269.6.0/775 - Release Date: 2007.04.24 5:43 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.463 / Virus Database: 269.6.0/775 - Release Date: 2007.04.24 5:43 PM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
