On Tuesday 28 September 2004 09:48, Grant Wilson wrote: Hi Grant,

I have recently installed Suse 9.1 and Im having major problems with browsing and authenticating to our samba server which is configured as our primary domain controller and file server. I am using KDE 3.3 When I first installed suse I configured the smb client under YAST, when I first tried to join the domain I was succesful. When I tried to browse the network, konqueror immediately popped up saying " Internal error".

The network browsing doesn't work well, it will find shares on a windows machine, but not the ones provided via samba on a linux box. You will have to type smb://server/share to be able to access your files (at least that's what I remember, it's been a while).

I tried joining the domain from the console and I had no problems, I can even view the shares on the samba server from the console. I then tried a number of times to rejoin the domain and constantly received errors. I thought this was perhaps a bug with YAST and I did a complete online update. When I now try join the domain, the domain does not appear under YAST if I click the browse button. If I manually type in the domain and click join I dont get prompted for authentication but I dont receive any errors either. I can still manually joing the domain from the console and can still see all the shares fine from the console. I tried joining the domain from the console and then browsing the network from the desktop but I still receive the same Konqueror internal error. As a last resort I tried mounting the shares using the console with smbmount //server/share /mountpoint -o username=username,password=password, this works fine and I am able to browse the shares from the desktop using konqueror but I am not given the privileges to access the files that my username should. It is as though I have mounted the shares but my username has not been authenticated. I have proved this by the fact that I can access shares that do not have user specific privileges, I get denied access to the ones that do. The rest of our network works perfectly with the same usernames on our windows pcs. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have tried searching google and have found others with the same problem but so far have found no solution.

It seems there are no samba users set up (on the samba server), Yast is not doing that for you automatically. I had to create users manually. Assuming you use smbpasswd as the authentication method. Go to a console, become root and do the following: smbpasswd -a username username is the user you want to set up. After hitting enter you will be asked for a password twice. You should now be able to access your shares. smbpasswd --help will give you some hints for options etc. Cheers, -- Sabine