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427508	2006-02-05 23:59:00	I've installed Debian Sarge on my old computer and am in the process of networking it to my new computer (WinXP Pro). At present I can move between them fairly easily using a KVM switch, but longterm I don't want this. Hence I'm setting up samba; I've done a fairly simple samba configuration because at this stage I'm only interested in file sharing and from windows I can see the linux machine, but I am being prompted for a user name and password and my current ones don't work. I go to windows explorer - entire network - Microsoft Windows Network (which has a padlocked world symbol beside it) - expand that to Home then Debian and I get the Network connection in the screen to the right, named as Debian server etc.. So I can see it from windows. I double click on this icon and I get a dialog box with keys on it, which prompts me for a user name & password, which won't allow me access. Right clicking on the debian server icon I get this message " you do not have the appropriate access rights for this server" Is there someone who could help me out with this please?	jcr1 (893)
427509	2006-02-06 06:13:00	this may help samba sample file debian (www.debian.org) I also remember somthing about samba password file you may have to add your self to that Its been a while since Ive got down and dirty with samba another trick I learned was to create the same user and password on both machines nix and windows	beama (111)
427510	2006-02-06 06:33:00	Basically the default Debian smb.conf file is set so that shares are secure. If you want to allow guest access to a share, I had to add to the global section, the following lines: map to guest = Bad User null passwords =true guest account = pcuser and an actual share looks like [music] comment = Music browseable = yes path = /home/music writeable = no public = yes guest ok = yes otherwise make your unix accounts on the Debian box the same as the ones on the machine connecting to it.	gibler (49)
427511	2006-02-06 19:22:00	Thanks Beama & Gibler, Tried those, still can't get access. The frustrating thing is I'm so close to making it work. I set up samba a couple of years ago, but because I had no real specific need for it I let it go; now however, I have a very good reason for it (and/or Filezilla which is the subject of another post I made). I remember on this forum, I was swamped with help - back in 2003. I was recovering from an operation so had plenty of time to fool around with configuring stuff. The trouble is, if you're not using things fairly regularly one soon forgets and I haven't even looked at samba since those days.	jcr1 (893)
427512	2006-02-06 19:44:00	I got around this by changing the following: security=user to: security=share Kills the need for passwords (which I didn't need anyway)	Myth (110)
427513	2006-02-06 19:46:00	Thanks Beama & Gibler, Tried those, still can't get access. The frustrating thing is I'm so close to making it work. I set up samba a couple of years ago, but because I had no real specific need for it I let it go; now however, I have a very good reason for it (and/or Filezilla which is the subject of another post I made). I remember on this forum, I was swamped with help - back in 2003. I was recovering from an operation so had plenty of time to fool around with configuring stuff. The trouble is, if you're not using things fairly regularly one soon forgets and I haven't even looked at samba since those days. Try throwing in your global section log level = 3 Restart samba /etc/init.d/samba restart Try connecting Look at the logs in directory /var/log/samba/ Check this (kimihia.org.nz) too	gibler (49)
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