I have a Linux box (hostname Lslinux) that I want to be able to access ressources on out NT network and vice versa. I installed samba and have the following smb.conf [global] workgroup = HARROW ;our NT domain encrypt passwords = yes domain logons = yes [david] comment = just a test path = /home/david read only = no guest ok = yes #end of smb.conf I can see the linux machine in the network neighbourhood, but I cannot access the defined share (error "\\Lslinux is not accessible. The network path was not found"). Neither can I smbmount any other share on our network from Linux. We use DHCP and I can ping each other client, but a ping using the hostname fails. I do not want the Linux machine act as server, only as client. What am I doing wrong ?

You should provide some more information, Linux version, kernel, samba version... In the global section of smb.conf, what is security set to ? If you can't ping by name there is something wrong in general.

Linux version RedHat 7.1 kernel 2.4.2 samba version 2.0.7 Currently there is no security entry in the [global] section I set the hostname to lslinux, the domainname to HARROW (as it is in the NT network). I guess that should make the machine be able to be pinged by hostname.

Hi, I use the same samba version and it works fine in the office and at home. There must be an entry for security= user or share or server or domain !!! I prefer security=user. You should make linux accounts for all users and make smbpasswd's. You can do it with linuxconf (I'm not familiar with red hat) or with useradd. The useradd tool is on all distros. example: useradd -G users user123 you will be asked for the password twice. Now you have a new user named user123 in the group users. smbpasswd -a -e user123 put in the same password. The option -a means add, the option -e means enable. If you make user accounts with useradd, they will have no home dir. I use SuSE and if I create a new user with yast (like linuxconf) I can check if you want a home dir or not.

I added a new user account using the same user name and password as I use it for the NT network (afaik it shouldn't matter if it is different). I added this user with smbpasswd -a -e username, but was not asked for any password. Does smbpasswd take the linux password when a user is added ? I also added security = user to the smb.conf and for sure restarted samba to get the new settings used. Nevertheless I still cannot contact to the linux box, NT tells me that the network path is not found. My guess is that the link between name and IP is missing. So I tried accessing the share using the IP address of the linux box, which should leave the name problem out, but it still does not work. Any other clues ? May there some restriction by the NT server based network ? Besides that, is there someone in central Connecticut who would like to give me hand with Linux ? Books are nice, but don't answer the stupid questions.

I would bet your samba is not installed properly. Samba cannot read the encrypted shadow password, so it needs its own password database. If you use smbpasswd, you should get New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: Added user ****** Check the basics: In /etc/services these 2 lines: netbios-ns 137/udp # NETBIOS Name Service netbios-ssn 139/tcp # NETBIOS session service in /etc/inetd.conf : netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/smbd smbd netbios-ns dgram udp wait root /usr/local/bin/nmbd nmbd testparm can check your smb.conf for syntax errors. Next simple check on your samba server: smbclient -L localhost Added interface ip=192.168.200.99 bcast=192.168.200.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Password: Domain=[SSP_GL] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.7] .... .... and more... Name resolving isn't the issue, you can connect to the share via IP (at least with NT, Win95 doesn't do the trick) If you can't ping by name, check your DHCP.

First of all thank you very very much that you spend your time helping me. :) I checked /etc/services and the following lines are included: netbios-ns 137/tcp netbios-ns 137/udp netbios-ssn 139/tcp netbios-ssn 139/udp I do not have a file /etc/inetd.conf (RedHat special ?), the only inetd.conf I found was under the webmin dirs (3 of them). Shall I create an inetd.conf in /etc with these lines ? I executed testparm and testparm told me that the /etc/samba/smb.conf is OK. But the dump of the service definitions looks entirely different than the smb.conf. The dump has far more lines, some options are not set (e.g. netbiosname). Does the dump show the actual conf file or all possible configurations ? Nevertheless I checked samba with smbclient -L localhost and get the following: SSL error setting CA cert locations: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0) trying default locations added inetrface ip=10.44.126.76 bcast=10.44.127.255 nmask 255.255.252.0 Password:******** session setup failed: code 0 I guess I am not supposed to get any error messages. What does this error message mean ? Hmm, afaik takes DHCP the name I entered as hostname (in my case lslinux), I can even see the machine in the network neighbourhood under NT, but cannot connect to it.