Guest yewkongthoo Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 Im a Linux newbie, I just got the samba working.... I can view files shared on my win xp pc in network, but i just can't open or download it. By the way, must I have a " user name " and " password" in order to access win xp from samba. I couldn't access win xp until I enable the Guest account . Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 u mean, u r trying to acces ur wondows file from ur linux box...if so, when a prompt asking user / passwd during that time u tried to access ur winxp, u can use the username and passwd of ur xp.. or the username in ur XP that has a read/write access to that shared file Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest yewkongthoo Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 thanks for the username and password part of the question.... I never thought of using my existing account name without password. Thanks alot. Im using Konqueror to access the windows xp ( smb:/ ) when I try to download file from the win folder , " Copy File(s) Progress" pop up but it's always at 0%. I've off the windows intergrated firewall, but it still doesn't help. Is there anything that I need to do to get it working? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 (edited) try it again... the download part.. then open a terminal window and as root using su issue the command #tail -f /var/log/messages so you can follow the event during that time you attempt to download from windows Edited March 1, 2005 by aioshin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest yewkongthoo Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 i can now download the file but i can't upload the file.... what happen again? haha it said i have no permission to write... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 hehe.. well, if u mean u cant upload to ur xp, try to check the shared forlder of your xp, if the user you were using to access it has only read access or read / write access.. also you can try the administrator account when promped to login.. sure it has a full access rights Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest yewkongthoo Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 im using the administrator account.... is there any other possible problem? by the way, i can't access samba from windows xp..... how should i connect samba from win xp? thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 u may try this... assuming u installed already samba-server using rpm or tar.gz backup your orig smb.conf file... as root#mv /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.orig then create a file smb.conf as root and put it in the same localtion of smb.conf.orig write the txt below in your smb.conf [global] workgroup = whatever netbios name = test-samba-server or whatever you like to put here server string = anonymous lan file server security = share browsable = yes host allow = 192.168.1. [myshare] path = /sharedfolder comment = test-only read only = no guest ok = yes then restart samba... #/etc/init.d/smb restart gui for samba.. try webmin, its a browserbase tool and like I said, try to visi www.samba.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest yewkongthoo Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 thank you very very much.... I'll try this later when i reach home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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