[plug] samba connection problems

[Ari Finander]

    Hello all,

It's been a while since I've been on the mailing list.  I stopped struggling with linux for about a year, but for the past 4 months it's been my primary operating system and I'm slowly learning more and more by doing more and more.  I'm having great difficulty with getting samba working.  Here's a copy of the text from a recent news group post about my struggles with samba:

I have a redhat8 box that I want to use as a file/print/backup server.
I've read the samba sections of several books, and I've gone through the
man pages and the material available at tldp.org among numerous other
sources of information.  I can access samba shares from the localhost
using the samba client.  I've set up samba and have the smbpasswd file
working.  The names and passwords for users on the redhat box and the
Windows XP box are the same.  I've turned IP Tables off, and it does not
help.  I run testparm after every change to smb.conf.  I restart smbd
and nmbd each time something is changed.

This is the error I'm receiving from the Windows XP Home computer:

\\Server2 is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this
network resource.  Contact the administrator of this server to find out
if you have access permissions.

The network path was not found.


The redhat8 box is at IP 192.168.0.3 and the WinXP box is at IP
192.168.0.101

Here's my smb.conf file:

[global]
     workgroup = OURNETWORK
     server string = Server2
     hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127.
     printcap name = /etc/printcap
     load printers = yes
     printing = lprng
     log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
     max log size = 0
     security = user
     encrypt passwords = yes
     smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
     unix password sync = Yes
     passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
     passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n
*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
     pam password change = yes
    obey pam restrictions = yes
     socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
     local master = no
     domain master = no
     domain logons = no
     dns proxy = no

[homes]
     comment = Home Directories
     browseable = no
     writable = yes
     valid users = %S
     create mode = 0664
     directory mode = 0775

[music]
     comment = music
     path = /pub/sambashare/music
     public = no
     writable = yes
     printable = no
     write list = @sambausers

[downloads]
     comment = downloads for windows
     path = /pub/sambashare/downloads
     public = no
     writable = yes
     printable = no
     write list = @sambausers

[linux]
     comment = linux downloads
     path = /pub/sambashare/linux
     public = no
     writable = yes
     printable = no
     write list = @sambausers

The version of samba I'm using is 2.2.7-2

I've been working on this for days now, and as a linux newbie I've
learned a lot about how this operating system works (even though I've
barely scratched the surface), but I think I've read just about every
f'ing manual and no it's time to ask for help!

TIA,

Ari

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