[ale] samba conf

[Jeff Hubbs]

Luis -

I have only piddling Samba experience but please don't give up!  I'm sure
you can get results.  

One thing at a time - let's start with your hdc1.  Can you paste your fstab
here so people can see what you've done?  Do you really want to mount
/dev/hdc1 as /?  I presume you plan on abandoning or re-using the partition
you now mount as /.  You can only have one / in the tree.  What I've done in
the past when adding a drive is to go into fstab and give the new drive a
mount point like /second or something like that.  I once had a two-drive
external array that I set up with the helpfully-named mount points /top and
/bottom.  

Questions that come to mind regarding Samba:  are you trying to integrate
into a pre-existing NT domain environment?  Are you sure you should even be
using smbpasswd?

- Jeff

-----Original Message-----
 From: Luis Luna [mailto:Luis at btr-architects.com]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 12:14 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] samba conf


Does anybody have pointers on trying to setup samba on a caldera 2.3
openlinux box? I followed all the steps outlined in the openlinux manual. I
followed the steps at samba.org . I can see the box from windows browse
list. I can click on the file I shared. But as soon as I try to connect to
it I get a user unknown error. I used smbpasswd, I set it to sync with the
domain controller, I manually set the password on the nt box the same as the
linux user, I did smbuser. What am I missing? Has anybody ever got samba to
run correctly? I am fairly new to linux, so I am also having another problem
related to this samba problem. I installed a new hard-drive after I did the
Caldera install. Linux recognized it as /dev/hdc1. Great! I ran mkfs on
/dev/hdc1. I made sure that it was in the fstab file. I can mount /dev/hcd1.
How do I make a "/" mount point on /dev/hdc1 ? I want to create a dir on
this drive and share it out with samba. I spent about 3 days trying to get
this config going. I am ready to shuck the whole and just put nt workstation
on it. The drive will only be used by one or two people at the most anyways.
I really want to get linux working in this conf to be able to expand it to
do other work on our network.
Any help or pointer will be appreciated! Thanks in advance!
Luis Luna
mailto:luis at btr-architects.com