[Herefordshire] Samba

[Mark Broadbent]

Hi Andrew,

Andrew Hodgson wrote:

>Hi,
>
>No, I want shares on my domain controler to be visible on my Linux box
>(currently running an ancient Samba 2.7 something, and going by the
>juggling I had to do this evening with fsck/badblocks etc, it won't be
>around for much longer).
>  
>
I assume you mean 2.2.7? Not that it matters... Just set-up samba in 
user mode with the domain value set correctly (same as your windows box) 
and restart it.  Then use smbmount to mount your favourite windows share 
on your Linux box.  Syntax should be:

# smbmount //<windows machine netbios name>/<share name> 
/mnt/mywindowsshare -o username=<username on windows machine>

If you really fancy a challenge then you could try to persuade autofs to 
automatically mount shares on demand.  However this is an exercise left 
to the reader. ;-)

Thanks
Mark

>Andrew.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
>[mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Matt
>Stone
>Sent: 30 March 2005 13:43
>To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
>Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] Samba
>
>Hi andrew.
>
>Am i right in thinking you want shares on your samba server to be
>visible on your windows box without being prompted for a password
>everytime you try to access them?
>
>A quick way of doing that is add yourself as a user on the samba box
>using adduser command, set your username to the same as it is on your
>windows box password the same as well. Then use:
>
>smbpasswd -a yourname
>
>You'll then be prompted for a password, use the same password you use
>for windows and voila, no more annoying password prompts. Another way is
>to set the security level to share rather than user but this means
>unauthenticated user can have access to your shares.
>
>As for my problems, got em sorted in the end. I ran findsmb which showed
>my samba server running with a netbios name of router and workgroup of
>workgroup (i've got a long host and domain name) so i just ran
>
>smbmount //server/share /mnt/samba -U username -P password -c
>router.workgroup
>
>And it bloody well worked! :)
>
>It's amazing how these things seem so obvious after a good nights kip
>and a few coffees
>
>Cheers
>Matt
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew at hodgsonfamily.org>
>To: <mherbert at redhat.com>; "Herefordshire Linux Users Group."
><herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:51 PM
>Subject: RE: [Herefordshire] Samba
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I have mounted shares on my W2k3 box, but wanted to join the box to the
>domain to possibly avoid continuious password prompts.  Any suggestions?
>
>
>Thanks.
>Andrew.
>
>
>
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