OK peeps, I'm just a noob at this.
I've got a Linux machine I want to use as a server (RH 7.3).
Client machines are W2K SP2.
Clients can ping server, server can ping clients
Clients can access internet via ADSL on server
I've mounted all the FAT32 disks I want to share and can see the contents from the Linux box.
The workgroup is correct.
I've run testparm over my smb.conf file and it reports OK
I've been working my way through the diagnosis.txt file and everything works up to step 4.
When I try this on the client (from a W2K cmd prompt)
net view \\server
I get this response
system error 5 has occurred
access is denied
I assume that my user names are out of synch, though I did notice trying to map a share under Explorer, W2K reported that the username was MACHINENAME/username.
I was using "Firstname Lastname" (in proper case) as the user name under W2K. I changed this to "firstnameinitial" ie williamc on the W2K box, and made sure I had an account on the RH box spelt the same and made sure the passwords were the same and the right case. Still no joy. I also tried turning encrypted passwords on and synching the SAMBA list with the UNIX list.
I'm going to bed, but if anyone has any ideas on what I'm doing wrong, I'd like a few pointers...
Thanks
I've got a Linux machine I want to use as a server (RH 7.3).
Client machines are W2K SP2.
Clients can ping server, server can ping clients
Clients can access internet via ADSL on server
I've mounted all the FAT32 disks I want to share and can see the contents from the Linux box.
The workgroup is correct.
I've run testparm over my smb.conf file and it reports OK
I've been working my way through the diagnosis.txt file and everything works up to step 4.
When I try this on the client (from a W2K cmd prompt)
net view \\server
I get this response
system error 5 has occurred
access is denied
I assume that my user names are out of synch, though I did notice trying to map a share under Explorer, W2K reported that the username was MACHINENAME/username.
I was using "Firstname Lastname" (in proper case) as the user name under W2K. I changed this to "firstnameinitial" ie williamc on the W2K box, and made sure I had an account on the RH box spelt the same and made sure the passwords were the same and the right case. Still no joy. I also tried turning encrypted passwords on and synching the SAMBA list with the UNIX list.
I'm going to bed, but if anyone has any ideas on what I'm doing wrong, I'd like a few pointers...
Thanks