On Monday 29 September 2008 09:24:57 pm Jim Flanagan wrote:
[kai] username = kai write list = kai read only = No guest ok = Yes available = No
Why do you have available = No ??
Um, because teh SWAT team told me to write that? Actually, I just gave what the SWAT utility wrote. Is that wrong? ... I actually just did some searching. Apparently there's a command-line utility called testparm that can be run as root. It shows what samba will do with the current configuration file. Here's what I get. xwing:/home/kai # testparm /etc/samba/smb.conf Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf Processing section "[kai]" WARNING: No path in service kai - making it unavailable! NOTE: Service kai is flagged unavailable. Processing section "[homes]" Processing section "[share]" WARNING: No path in service share - making it unavailable! NOTE: Service share is flagged unavailable. Loaded services file OK. Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE Hmm - that ain't good. Robert Urich came out and told me I'd better change. So I launched SWAT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUJu17fAnKU) and now have the following... # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2008/09/29 21:32:31 [global] valid users = kai [kai] path = /home/kai username = kai write list = kai read only = No guest ok = Yes [homes] valid users = %S read only = No browseable = No I did an rcsmb and an rcnmb restart and both came out okay. I did a testparm and it came out okay xwing:/home/kai # testparm /etc/samba/smb.conf Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf Processing section "[kai]" Processing section "[homes]" Loaded services file OK. Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions However, I get a timeout when testing smb:\\192.168.0.101\kai (my ip on my local network) An error occurred while loading smb:\\192.168.0.101\kai: Timeout on server I then tried smb://192.168.0.101/kai and got it... http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2008/smb_share2.png ...and from my wife's Win2K machine... http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2008/samba_connect.jpg Whew! Finally. Thanks for the help! Now, on to making it easier and doable from the right-click menu on Konqueror. (But that is for another day.) -- kai www.filesite.org || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request
