On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 16:01 -0700, Jerry Houston wrote:
I've tried everything I can think of to get Samba working on my 11.0 server (built fresh, on a new empty hard drive).
It's serving folders and files okay, but I can't get any users working, including Administrator, so there's no way the Windows machines (or even my Linux workstation) can be joined to my domain, of which this smb server is the PDC. And trying to use one of the smb printers from a Windows machine just results in a permissions problem.
My Linux books, if they talk about Samba at all, simply show how to set up the server in YaST. That doesn't help, because everything there looks right. Except that every time I run the Samba server module, it asks me again for an Administrator/root password -- it doesn't seem to be able to create the user account, although no error is reported.
I think I could probably get things sorted out using SWAT, but when I try to connect to localhost:901 no connection is possible. Firefox tells me that the site appears to be valid, but but it won't accept a connection.
Has anyone else been down this road with 11.0? Things were working great in 10.3, but I really don't want to "upgrade" to that version again, if there's a simpler answer. (Of course, when I upgraded to 11.0 I should have saved a copy of samba.conf, but it's too late for that now.)
Surely Samba is an important enough component of a server that it hasn't been overlooked in the move to 11.0. Right?
Make sure the service is allowed in the yast2 firewall. also, don't forget smbpasswd -a username to add the user to samba. Bites me in the ass all the time. -- Michael S. Dunsavage -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org