Another hint that might help you. Make sure that you have your host name
and ip listed in /etc/lmhosts file. Beyond the loopback address you need to
let Samba know who you are in that file.
Pat Cookson
Atlanta Newspapers
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On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, John Blackmore wrote:
> I tried to set up SAMBA this past weekend, with some success. Basically,
I
> wanted to be able to share files between my laptop (NT 4.0) and my home
> computer, which thanks to the Win2K upgrade is a RH 6.1 box. I (loosely)
> followed the HOWTO on home-networking, but without the "outside" setup.
>
> For now, I won't post all the details, but I'm able to ping from NT to
Linux
> and from Linux to NT. The Samba server, smbd, nmbd, smbclient, and dhcpd
all
> seem to be working fine. I use the Linux box as my gateway and DHCP
server,
> my NT laptop gets the right IP addr (I use 192.168.1.2, for private
> network).
>
> The only thing I can't do is map a drive in NT to a share on the Linux
box.
> I've gone through the 'DIAGNOSIS.txt' file (some of you may know what I'm
> referring to). I get the message "You are not authorized to do that from
> this station" or something like that. My first assumption is that it's a
> host permission problem of some sort, but I don't know if it's
hosts.deny,
> hosts.allow, /etc/hosts, or smb.conf! Or maybe I need to encrypt
passwords
> and/or set up smbpasswd? I should mention that my NT login is
'jblackmore'
> but I try to map the drive as 'john' and enter the appropriate password
for
> the linux box. Anyone know how I can grant permission to do this?
>
> -John
>
Look at the Samba docs on encripted passwords. You will ether have to
enable them in Samba, or disable them in NT. You may also want to use the
/etc/smbusers file to map jblackmore to john...
Mikkel
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