Re: Problems getting Samba to work fixed

2003-03-30 Thread David Meiser
Thanks everyone who provided help.  I found that, by putting my username in the username field, I could work around this issue in a fairly simple and sane manner, with a reasonable amount of security...  we already had some fool hack our first win32 media server and delete our music, so I have

Re: Problems getting Samba to work

2003-03-30 Thread Mike M
On Saturday 29 March 2003 17:25, David E. Meiser wrote: > I am attempting to build a media server, using samba to transfer files > to the media server from my Windows XP box and am unable to logon to the > media server. I am able to get to the media server and view the open > shares, but I'm unabl

RE: Problems getting Samba to work

2003-03-30 Thread David E. Meiser
>I beleve you'll get a problem no matter what you do, because if you >log on to the domain, the policy will probably keep you from logging >on to the sambaserver and if you log on to the XP box locally, you'll >probably get troubble because your not logged into the workgroup. But >I'm not 100% sure

Re: Problems getting Samba to work

2003-03-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David E. Meiser wrote: I see you have "username=dave" in your smb.conf and username = dave invalid users = root admin users = dave write list = dave will that say that the user dave resides on the linuxbox as well? And if so is that user one of a fev that's accessing the samba server? If that's t

RE: Problems getting Samba to work

2003-03-30 Thread David E. Meiser
i-bus through. Peace, DAVE -Original Message- From: Lindsay Yardley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 3:38 AM To: debian-userMailList Subject: RE: Problems getting Samba to work G'day David, I'm a newbie but try adding "writable = yes" under "

RE: Problems getting Samba to work

2003-03-30 Thread David E. Meiser
>I see you have "username=dave" in your smb.conf and > >> username = dave >> invalid users = root >> admin users = dave >> write list = dave > >will that say that the user dave resides on the linuxbox as well? And >if so is that user one of a fev that's accessing the samba server?

RE: Problems getting Samba to work

2003-03-30 Thread Lindsay Yardley
G'day David, I'm a newbie but try adding "writable = yes" under "[homes]" hth Lindsay | David E. Meiser wrote: | > I am attempting to build a media server, using samba to | transfer files | > to the media server from my Windows XP box and am unable | to logon to the | > media server. I am ab

Re: Problems getting Samba to work

2003-03-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David E. Meiser wrote: I am attempting to build a media server, using samba to transfer files to the media server from my Windows XP box and am unable to logon to the media server. I am able to get to the media server and view the open shares, but I'm unable to get to the shared files themselves (

Problems getting Samba to work

2003-03-29 Thread David E. Meiser
I am attempting to build a media server, using samba to transfer files to the media server from my Windows XP box and am unable to logon to the media server. I am able to get to the media server and view the open shares, but I'm unable to get to the shared files themselves (let alone write to the