[Gllug] Howto make Samba work on Suse10.1

chanka perera chanka.perera at gmail.com
Tue Oct 10 09:40:10 UTC 2006


Hi ,

you have to check your firewall rules, whether it has allowed netbios
/samba to allow from trusted local network,

send us your iptables -L out put.. or add rules accordingly. i don't
find any issue with your samba configuration files.

regards,

chanka perera

On 10/9/06, Emon <emon at nerdshack.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am a novice user & I have just switched over to Suse10.1 from
> Slackware10.2
> (been running Slackware since Slackware9.1)
>
> I have 4 PC connected to a home LAN. 1 running Linux, & others are
> running WinXP
>
> 1)
> I have (somewhat) setup samba using Yast, but the thing is, if the
> firewall turned off, then I am able to access the LAN from my Suse box,
> otherwise it says "Unable to find any workgroups in your local network.
> This might be caused by an enabled firewall."  But as far as I can
> recall there was an option during samba configuration to "Open Firewall
> ports"... which I did... so what could be going wrong??
>
> The XP boxes are able to access my samba server without any problem though.
>
> I am also pasting my /etc/samba/smb.conf
>
> Thanks in advance :-)
> Emon
>
> # smb.conf is the main Samba configuration file. You find a full commented
> # version at /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/examples/smb.conf.SUSE if the
> # samba-doc package is installed.
> # Date: 2006-05-02
> [global]
>         workgroup = LANLINK
>         bind interfaces only = true
>         interfaces = eth0 192.170.0.1
>         hosts allow = 192.170.0.0/255.255.255.0 127.0.0.1
>         log level = 1
>         log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>         max log size = 1024
>         printing = cups
>         printcap name = cups
>         printcap cache time = 750
>         cups options = raw
>         map to guest = Bad User
>         include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
>         logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile
>         logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile
>         logon drive = P:
>         add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd  -c Machine -d /var/lib/nobody
> -s /bin/false %m$
>         domain logons = No
>         domain master = No
>         netbios name = magicbox
>         security = user
> [homes]
>         comment = Home Directories
>         valid users = %S, %D%w%S
>         browseable = No
>         read only = No
>         inherit acls = Yes
> [profiles]
>         comment = Network Profiles Service
>         path = %H
>         read only = No
>         store dos attributes = Yes
>         create mask = 0600
>         directory mask = 0700
> [users]
>         comment = All users
>         path = /home
>         read only = No
>         inherit acls = Yes
>         veto files = /aquota.user/groups/shares/
> [groups]
>         comment = All groups
>         path = /home/groups
>         read only = No
>         inherit acls = Yes
> [printers]
>         comment = All Printers
>         path = /var/tmp
>         printable = Yes
>         create mask = 0600
>         browseable = No
> [print$]
>         comment = Printer Drivers
>         path = /var/lib/samba/drivers
>         write list = @ntadmin root
>         force group = ntadmin
>         create mask = 0664
>         directory mask = 0775
> [share]
>         inherit acls = Yes
>         path = /media/hd/MAGICSTORE/share/
>         read only = No
>         create mask = 0775
>         browseable = Yes
>         public = yes
>
>
>
>
>
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