Samba - trouble with simple smb.conf

Hello Francis,yesdsl is adminand there is a guest account   a sambapassword for each : Hello Francis,

yes

dsl is admin

and there is a guest account  and a sambapassword for each :

I made a guest user on the file server machine : # adduser guestand added the samba password# smbpasswd -a guest# testparm# /etc/init.d/samba restart
On 11/30/06, Francis Healy <
zfhealy@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Your SMB.conf
file has security=user set.  Have you created user accounts on the linux box for each of the Samba users?anthony <

mailinganthony@googlemail.com> wrote: Hello, For a few years I have used dsl in an old pentium 1 machine for a fileserver for my house. Since I recently got hold of a better old machine I thought I would install debian and update the configuration
The fileserver is using samba and should allow a number of clients (Mac, Win and *nix) to mount read and write using the pass/user pair guest/guest (trying to keep it as simple as possible). I made a guest user on the file server machine :
# adduser guestand added the samba password# smbpasswd -a guest# testparm# /etc/init.d/samba restartFor some reason the smb.conf that I copied over from the working dsl
config does not work, I get an error with each of these connection methods from a  machine on the network : thinking:/home/thinker# mount /mnt/music -o username=guestError connecting to

192.168.0.8 (Connection refused)8187: Connection to 192.168.0.8 failedSMB connection failedthinking:/home/thinker# smbclient -L //gramsci -U guest
Error connecting to 192.168.0.8 (Connection refused)Connection to gramsci failedthinking:/home/thinker# smbclient -L //GRAMSCI -U guest
Error connecting to 192.168.0.8 (Connection refused)Connection to GRAMSCI failedthinking:/home/thinker# smbtree
Password: thinking:/home/thinker# smbclient -L //gramsci -U guest Error connecting to 192.168.0.8 (Connection refused)
Connection to gramsci
failedHere is my smb.conf pasted below (modified/simplified to be similar to the one recommended here

http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/samba.htm) Apologies for pasting the whole thing, but I'm really not very sure exactly which parameters need altering or are set incorrectly. #======================= Global Settings =======================
[global]## Browsing/Identification #### Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of   workgroup = PLUNDER    netbiosname = GRAMSCI# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field
   server string = %h server (Samba %v)# Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:# WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server ;   wins support = yes# WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a
WINS Client# Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both;   wins server = w.x.y.z# This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS. ;   dns proxy = yes

# What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names# to IP addresses;   name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast; guest account = nobody; invalid users = root # For Unix password sync to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following
# parameters must be set (thanks to Augustin Luton <aluton@hybrigenics.fr> for# sending the correct chat script for the passwd program in Debian Potato).
;   passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u;   passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .# This boolean controls whether PAM will be used for password
changes# when requested by an SMB client instead of the program listed in # 'passwd program'. The default is 'no'.;   pam password change = no; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast########## Printing ##########
# If you want to automatically load your printer list rather # than setting them up individually then you'll need this;   load printers = yes# lpr(ng) printing. You may wish to override the location of the
# printcap file;   printing = bsd;   printcap name = /etc/printcap # CUPS printing.  See also the cupsaddsmb(8) manpage in the# cupsys-client package.;   printing = cups;   printcap name = cups
# When using [print$], root is implicitly a 'printer admin', but you can # also give this right to other users to add drivers and set printer# properties;   printer admin =
@ntadmin######## File sharing ######### Name mangling options;   preserve case = yes;   short preserve case = yes############ Misc ############# Using the following line enables you to customise your configuration
# on a per machine basis. The %m gets replaced with the netbios name # of the machine that is connecting;   include = /home/samba/etc/smb.conf.%m#### Debugging/Accounting ##### This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine
# that connects   log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m # Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb).   max log size = 1000# If you want Samba to only log through syslog then set the following
# parameter to 'yes'.;   syslog only = no# We want Samba to log a minimum amount of information to syslog. Everything# should go to
/var/log/samba/log.{smbd,nmbd} instead. If you want to log# through syslog you should set the following parameter to something higher.    syslog = 0# Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace
   panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d; xtra deb config to speed samba up; socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096 ####### Authentication #######

# "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account# in this server for every user accessing the server. See# /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/ServerType.html in the samba-doc

# package for details.   security = user# You may wish to use password encryption.  See the section on# 'encrypt passwords' in the smb.conf(5) manpage before enabling.;   encrypt passwords = yes

# If you are using encrypted passwords, Samba will
need to know what# password database type you are using.;   passdb backend = tdbsam guest;   obey pam restrictions = yes;  guest account = guest ;   invalid users = root# This boolean parameter controls whether Samba attempts to sync the Unix
# password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the# passdb is changed.;   unix password sync = no # For Unix password sync to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following# parameters must be set (thanks to Augustin Luton <
aluton@hybrigenics.fr> for# sending the correct chat script for the passwd program in Debian Potato).
;   passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u;   passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .# This boolean controls whether PAM will be used for password
changes# when requested by an SMB client instead of the program listed in # 'passwd program'. The default is 'no'.;   pam password change = no; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast########## Printing ##########
# If you want to automatically load your printer list rather # than setting them up individually then you'll need this;   load printers = yes# lpr(ng) printing. You may wish to override the location of the
# printcap file;   printing = bsd;   printcap name = /etc/printcap # CUPS printing.  See also the cupsaddsmb(8) manpage in the# cupsys-client package.;   printing = cups;   printcap name = cups
# When using [print$], root is implicitly a 'printer admin', but you can # also give this right to other users to add drivers and set printer# properties;   printer admin =
@ntadmin######## File sharing ######### Name mangling options;   preserve case = yes;   short preserve case = yes############ Misc ############# Using the following line enables you to customise your configuration
# on a per machine basis. The %m gets replaced with the netbios name # of the machine that is connecting;   include = /home/samba/etc/smb.conf.%m# Most people will find that this option gives better performance.
# See smb.conf(5) and /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/speed.html # for details# You may want to add the following on a Linux system:#         SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192;   socket options = TCP_NODELAY
# The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package # installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are# working to ease installation and
configuration of linpopup and samba.;   message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s' & # Domain Master specifies Samba to be the Domain Master Browser. If this
# machine will be configured as a BDC (a secondary logon server), you# must set this to 'no'; otherwise, the default behavior is recommended. ;   domain master = auto# Some defaults for winbind (make sure you're not using the ranges
# for something else.);   idmap uid = 10000-20000;   idmap gid = 10000-20000;   template shell = /bin/bash #======================= Share Definitions =======================[homes]   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = no# By default, the home directories are exported read-only. Change next # parameter to 'yes' if you want to be able to write to them.   writable = no# File creation
mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to# create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.    create mask = 0700# Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
# create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.   directory mask = 0700[music] comment=ur musicwritable=yespath=/mnt/musicpublic=yesbrowseable=yesvalid users=guest
admin users=dslcreate mask=777directory mask=777[film]comment=ur filmwritable=yespath=/mnt/filmbrowseable=yesvalid users=guestadmin users=dslcreate mask=777directory mask=777
# Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons# (you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.) ;[netlogon];   comment = Network Logon Service;   path =
/home/samba/netlogon;   guest ok = yes;   writable = no;   share modes = no[printers]   comment = All Printers   browseable = no    path = /tmp   printable = yes   public = no

   writable = no   create mode = 0700# Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable# printer drivers[print$]   comment = Printer Drivers    path = /var/lib/samba/printers
   browseable = yes   read only = yes   guest ok = no# Uncomment to allow remote administration of Windows print drivers.# Replace 'ntadmin' with the name of the group your admin users are # members of.
;   write list = root, @ntadmin# A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others.;[cdrom];   comment = Samba server's
CD-ROM;   writable = no;   locking = no;   path = /cdrom # The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the#       cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain
#       an entry like this:##       /dev/scd0   /cdrom  iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user   0 0 ## The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the## If you don't want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD
#       is mounted on /cdrom#;   preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom ;   postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom