I have setup a server with ubuntu fiesty 7.04 and have updated all. Installed samba and edited its config to look like this

[global]
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
workgroup = "Name"
netbios name = "Server name"
invalid users = root
security = user
wins support = no
log file = /var/log/samba.log
log level = 3
max log size = 1000
syslog = 1
encrypt passwords = true
passdb backend = smbpasswd
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
dns proxy = no
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat =*Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
obey pam restrictions = yes
pam password change = no
null passwords = no

#Share Definitions

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = yes
writable = yes
security mask = 0700
create mask = 0700

Added a user and password. But when I goto my win xp setup and try to login with
\\(whatever my IP adress is)\homes it does not offer to let me sign into the server I made. The server is connected wirelessly if that makes a difference.

Any help is appreciated.

Yeah I've never had much fun dealing with Samba either. But anyway... the "workgroup" setting should be the same as the workgroup that the XP machine is in. If it's not, it won't show up in your "network neighborhood". Once the machine is showing up there, it's eaiser to just browse your network neighborhood as if it were any other folder than fiddle with the direct path, so that's usually what I do. If you can't get it to show up, then you might want to cut your config file down to the bare minimum and then start adding the security options and whatnot back in that you want to have in there. Samba is really picky about file permissions and user access, so it's easy to get snagged on something simple. You can check your config file for errors by typing "testparm" from the command line.

If you've fiddled with the services of the XP machine, then you might have turned off some services which will stop XP from recognizing the share as well. Windows being windows, if that's the problem then it'll just not work and you won't get much in the way of a useful error message.

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Edited: 07/21/2007 at 09:42 AM by Mime

Checking it out now. Thanks

Try to add a samba user with smbpasswd -a

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Edited: 07/25/2007 at 04:40 PM by kccustom