Getting Samba to work with guests [solved]

[hanes]

I have always had problems getting samba to work well. I am in a wireless home network and I want to share my mp3's and movies, I want to do this from my Mandriva computer. I want these directories to be readable/writable by guests in the network. I want my computer to show up in "Network Neighborhood".

 

After screwing with this file, I gotta come here for help. What am I doing wrong?

 

smb.conf

 

[global]
workgroup = ShareGroup
server string = Samba Server %v
netbios name=netbiosname
security=share
map to guest = Bad User
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
printcap cache time = 60
printcap name = cups
dns proxy = No

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
browseable = No

[print$]
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
write list = @adm, root
inherit permissions = Yes
guest ok = Yes

[pdf-gen]
comment = PDF Generator (only valid users)
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes
printing = bsd
print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf "%s" "%H" "//%L/%u" "%m" "%I" "%J" &
lpq command = /bin/true
lprm command = lprm -P'%p' %j
[printers]
path = /var/spool/samba
comment = All Printers
browseable = yes
printable = yes
print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r
guest ok = yes
use client driver = yes

[DataShare]
path = /mnt/data/Share/
comment = Downloads
browseable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
read list = hanes
write list = hanes
admin users = hanes
valid users = hanes
null passwords = yes
guest ok = yes

[Music]
path = /mnt/data/music/
comment = Music
browseable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
null passwords = yes
guest ok = yes
guest only=yes

 

When I try to connect from my laptop I get this error in the samba log.

 

[2006/04/18 16:56:18, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(835)

t43 (192.168.2.133) closed connection to service DataShare

[2006/04/18 17:29:08, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_data(526)

read_data: read failure for 4 bytes to client 192.168.2.133. Error = Connection reset by peer

[2006/04/18 17:29:09, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(835)

t43 (192.168.2.133) closed connection to service DataShare

 

Any ideas how to fix my Samba?

Edited May 8, 2006 by hanes

[ianw1974]

I've used swat to configure samba, it's pretty cool:

 

urpmi swat

 

It should be relatively easy to configure this way. There is a samba faq on this board and you can use configuration wizards for samba too under mcc:

 

urpmi drakwizard

 

unfortunately, I don't know samba that well, but I would have thought these two items might be able to help you out.

[uralmasha]

... make sure you have created and enabled samba user "hanes" with smbpasswd command. There is also no hosts aloow= xxx.xxx in your [globals] section. By default it is like "deny all" if I remember it right.

 

BTW i have not checked it, but valid users = hanes and guest ok = yes seem contradictory.

[hanes]

man, this is aggravating.

 

Swat is a really confusing app, after you find out you have to connect on localhost:901, you are quickly presented with a very unintuitive menu. There are plenty of values, and one is left guessing on what to type in them, for example there is a textbox called Guest, i entered "yes", I entered "Hell Yes", I entered "Yes Please work what the #$@$ is the problem?", none of these seemed to work as expected.

 

I have tried the mcc "Manage samba partitions" option. I add a share, it kicks me out of mcc (crashes). I turn mcc back on, my share wasnt added, I repeat until my head explodes.

 

I have erased the "valid users" line and still get bupkiss... anyone got any solutions over here?

Edited May 10, 2006 by hanes

[hanes]

Well when you need answers, go to the source I guess. I found some good advice at the official Samba HowTo

 

Here is my working smb.conf

 

[global]
workgroup = Workgroup
netbios name = Baulz
security = share

[data]
comment = Data
path = /mnt/data/Share
force user = guestpc
force group = users
read only = No
guest ok = Yes

 

 

Then all I had to do was make a user called guestpc, and chmod the directories properly. If anyone has similar problems here is a link to the page that helped... http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-.../FastStart.html

[Jza]

Also you can try to share them but through http, you can do this installing gnump3d which will publish all your mp3 in a website running in your computer. So the users can just go to your internal ip 192.168.x.x:8888 and vioala your whole library to play.