Long Time Samba No Work-Need Expert Help On Samba/Networking

Sat Jul 21 21:40:17 UTC 2007

    I have the same set up which has been working
fine.

Thanks Oudisos for the comeback.  Looks like my Yahoo
mail reverted back to HTML again so I changed back to
text.  Had to reset it several time but it wont stick.

Have you tried disabling the firewalls on both
machines to see if theycould be in the way? In Win XP
the windows firewall turns itself onautomatically when
you download windows update.

Have before and didn't help. But turned off WinXP
firewall again just now and get same results.  Don't
have any firewall installed on Ubuntu but do have
iptables.  Was going to purge it but dependencies
wanted to remove ubuntu-standard so elected not to. 
Unless iptables has a default that would interfere I
should be ok as it was never setup.  The 2Wire
router/modem has a builtin firewall but I'm fairly
confident that it doesn't interfere inside the
network.
Anyway, error output the same.  The key thing I see in
all the output is that it doesn't recognize or see the
netmask for the ip 192.168.1.65, the windows machine,
and I don't know what to do about it.

Also, your workgroup in the samba.conf seems to be
MSHOME. Is that theworkgroup name in your windows XP
system settings? 

Yes, that's one of the useful things I got out of
googling.  That workgroup name, UID's and passwords
must be the same on all networked machines for samba
to work.
I tried the samba commands I listed on the original
post and got same results after disabling windows
firewall.  Also tried sambatree with this output:

lchata at ubuntu:/etc/samba$ smbtree -S
added interface ip=127.0.0.1 bcast=127.255.255.255
nmask=255.0.0.0
added interface ip=192.168.1.64 bcast=192.168.1.255
nmask=255.255.255.0
not adding duplicate interface 192.168.1.64
can't determine netmask for 192.168.1.65
Password:
resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name
MSHOME<0x1d>
name_resolve_bcast: Attempting broadcast lookup for
name MSHOME<0x1d>
resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name
MSHOME<0x1b>
resolve_wins: Attempting wins lookup for name
MSHOME<0x1b>
resolve_wins: WINS server resolution selected and no
WINS servers listed.
name_resolve_bcast: Attempting broadcast lookup for
name MSHOME<0x1b>
name_resolve_bcast: Attempting broadcast lookup for
name __MSBROWSE__<0x1>
lchata at ubuntu:/etc/samba$

Hey, I don't know anything about networking or samba
but it does seem that the router is just not
recognizing the windows machine or the windows machine
does not recognize the Ubuntu machine when I issue
commands from windows.  And I don't know what to do
about it.
Thanks for the suggestions and any more to come,

Oudisos.
  Hi All,
I have a 2 computer LAN using a 2Wire 1701HG
Gateway/DSL Modem with oneWinXP machine connecting to
gateway via Linksys WMP54Gv4 wlan adapterand the other
Ubuntu machine connected directly via 3Com
3c905B100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 34) NIC. The system
works near perfectly asindividual machines but don't
talk to each other.  Although, I did theactual setups
on the two machines, I had hand holding help from
aDebian friend and a WXP friend. My suspicions are
that the network orSamba is not set up properly. I've
spent many hours over weeksgoogling, reading finds and
manuals, trying solutions that may havemade matters
worse and have got to the point that don't know what
todo/try next.  Haven't specified any Domain Name for
the system andbelieve that's unnecessary.  Using DHCP
but my IPs never change. Haven't attempted to
reinstall the wlan card or network as notconfident in
my ability to do so.  All the above FYI.  My symptoms
are:

Can't map network drives on WinXP. I click on "map
network drives" andenter on the popup:

  Drive:    Z: (Have use drive: M at times)
  Folder:    \\ubuntu\UID ( UID's are same onboth
machines.

Pavilion8370 is machine name for WinXP and Ubuntu is
for FeistyUbuntu).  Also used \\samba\UID with same
results.
  Click finish, get the "attempting to connect to
\\ubuntu\UID"popup and after a considerably long wait
it asks for my user name andpassword via popup. I
enter the info which are the same on bothmachines.
Another long wait and another popup "connect to
ubuntu" comesup with user name filled in with
UBUNTU\lchata and remembered passwordfilled in.  Click
OK, another long wait and the same popup shows
upagain.  Hitting ok again several times gives the
same results orstarting over gives same results.  I've
done this what seems like ahundred times all with same
results.
  I would like some clue as to what's is causing this
and how toproceed fixing it.

  On the Ubuntu machine with all samba
installed(smb.conf shown atend) I can do from konsole:
lchata at ubuntu:/etc/samba$ smbclient -L pavilion8370
Password:
Domain=[PAVILION8370] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows
2000 LAN Manager]

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        Default User    Disk
        IPC$            IPC       Remote IPC
        SharedDocs      Disk
        print$          Disk      Printer Drivers
        My Music        Disk
        EPSONSty        Printer   EPSON Stylus CX5800F
Series
        C               Disk
        NetHood         Disk
        EPSON Stylus CX6400 Disk
        ADMIN$          Disk      Remote Admin
        C$              Disk      Default share
        Printer         Printer   EPSON Stylus CX6400
Domain=[PAVILION8370] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows
2000 LAN Manager]

        Server               Comment
        ---------            -------

        Workgroup            Master
        ---------            -------
lchata at ubuntu:/etc/samba$
No other samba command works.  If I try any other
smbclient options,and I've tried all, I just get the
smbclient help menu.

If I try smbmount I get:
lchata at ubuntu:/etc/samba$ sudo mount -t smbfs
//PAVILION8370/C$/mnt/"My Pictures"
Password:
opts: rw
mount.smbfs started (version 3.0.24)
added interface ip=127.0.0.1 bcast=127.255.255.255
nmask=255.0.0.0
added interface ip=192.168.1.64 bcast=192.168.1.255
nmask=255.255.255.0
not adding duplicate interface 192.168.1.64
can't determine netmask for 192.168.1.65
Could not resolve mount point /mnt/My Pictures
lchata at ubuntu:/etc/samba$

If I try "smbmount //pavilion8370/c /mnt/c -l lchata",
I get:

lchata at ubuntu:/etc/samba$ smbmount //pavilion8370/c
/mnt/c -l lchata
/mnt/c: invalid option -- l
mount.smbfs started (version 3.0.24)
added interface ip=127.0.0.1 bcast=127.255.255.255
nmask=255.0.0.0
added interface ip=192.168.1.64 bcast=192.168.1.255
nmask=255.255.255.0
not adding duplicate interface 192.168.1.64
can't determine netmask for 192.168.1.65
Could not resolve mount point /mnt/c
lchata at ubuntu:/etc/samba$
Trying other shares, results same, only share names
change.

Kernel used and smb.conf shown below:
lchata at ubuntu:/var/log/samba$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-16-lowlatency #2 SMP PREEMPT Thu
Jun 7 20:23:03 UTC2007 i686 GNU/Linux
lchata at ubuntu:/var/log/samba$
lchata at ubuntu:/var/log/samba$ cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
#
snipped the # notes

#======================= Global Settings
=======================

[global]
        log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
        load printers = yes
        passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:*
%n\n*Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n
*password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
        obey pam restrictions = yes
        socket options = TCP_NODELAY
        hide dot files = no
        username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
        encrypt passwords = true
        passdb backend = tdbsam
        passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
        dns proxy = no
        writeable = yes
        printing = cups
        server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
        invalid users = root
        workgroup = MSHOME
        debug level = 3
        valid users = lchata,"leonard
Chatagnier", at lchata
        printcap name = cups
        syslog = 0
        security = user
        panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action
%d
        max log size = 1000

## Browsing/Identification ###

# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your
Samba server willpart of

# server string is the equivalent of the NT
Description field

# Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:
# WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to
enable its WINSServer
;   wins support = no

# WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to
be a WINS Client
# Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS
Client, but NOTboth
;   wins server = w.x.y.z

# This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names
through DNS.

# What naming service and in what order should we use
to resolve hostnames
# to IP addresses
;   name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast

#### Networking ####

# The specific set of interfaces / networks to bind to
# This can be either the interface name or an IP
address/netmask;
# interface names are normally preferred
   interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 eth0 192.168.1.64
192.168.1.65

# Only bind to the named interfaces and/or networks;
you must use the
# 'interfaces' option above to use this.
# It is recommended that you enable this feature if
your Samba machineis
# not protected by a firewall or is a firewall itself.
 However, this
# option cannot handle dynamic or non-broadcast
interfaces correctly.
;   bind interfaces only = true

#### Debugging/Accounting ####

# This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each
machine
# that connects

# Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb).

# If you want Samba to only log through syslog then
set the following
# parameter to 'yes'.
;   syslog only = no

# We want Samba to log a minimum amount of information
to syslog.Everything
# should go to /var/log/samba/log.{smbd,nmbd} instead.
If you want tolog
# through syslog you should set the following
parameter to somethinghigher.

# Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the
admin a backtrace

####### Authentication #######

# "security = user" is always a good idea. This will
require a Unixaccount
# in this server for every user accessing the server.
See
#
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/ServerType.html
# in the samba-doc package for details.

# You may wish to use password encryption.  See the
section on
# 'encrypt passwords' in the smb.conf(5) manpage
before enabling.

# If you are using encrypted passwords, Samba will
need to know what
# password database type you are using.

# This boolean parameter controls whether Samba
attempts to sync theUnix
# password with the SMB password when the encrypted
SMB password in the
# passdb is changed.
   unix password sync = yes

# For Unix password sync to work on a Debian GNU/Linux
system, thefollowing
# parameters must be set (thanks to Ian
Kahan<<kahan at informatik.tu-muenchen.de> for
# sending the correct chat script for the passwd
program in DebianSarge).

# This boolean controls whether PAM will be used for
password changes
# when requested by an SMB client instead of the
program listed in
# 'passwd program'. The default is 'no'.
;   pam password change = no

########## Domains ###########

# Is this machine able to authenticate users. Both PDC
and BDC
# must have this setting enabled. If you are the BDC
you must
# change the 'domain master' setting to no
#
;   domain logons = yes
#
# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain
logons' is set
# It specifies the location of the user's profile
directory
# from the client point of view)
# The following required a [profiles] share to be
setup on the
# samba server (see below)
;   logon path = \\%N\profiles\%U
# Another common choice is storing the profile in the
user's homedirectory
;   logon path = \\%N\%U\profile

# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain
logons' is set
# It specifies the location of a user's home directory
(from the client
# point of view)
;   logon drive = H:
;   logon home = \\%N\%U

# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain
logons' is set
# It specifies the script to run during logon. The
script must be stored
# in the [netlogon] share
# NOTE: Must be store in 'DOS' file format convention
;   logon script = logon.cmd

# This allows Unix users to be created on the domain
controller via theSAMR
# RPC pipe.  The example command creates a user
account with a disabledUnix
# password; please adapt to your needs
; add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser --quiet
--disabled-password--gecos "" %u

########## Printing ##########

# If you want to automatically load your printer list
rather
# than setting them up individually then you'll need
this

# lpr(ng) printing. You may wish to override the
location of the
# printcap file
;   printing = bsd
;   printcap name = /etc/printcap

# CUPS printing.  See also the cupsaddsmb(8) manpage
in the
# cupsys-client package.

# When using [print$], root is implicitly a 'printer
admin', but you can
# also give this right to other users to add drivers
and set printer
# properties
;   printer admin = @lpadmin

############ Misc ############

# Using the following line enables you to customise
your configuration
# on a per machine basis. The %m gets replaced with
the netbios name
# of the machine that is connecting
;   include = /home/samba/etc/smb.conf.%m

# Most people will find that this option gives better
performance.
# See smb.conf(5)
and/usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/speed.html
# for details
# You may want to add the following on a Linux system:
#         SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

# The following parameter is useful only if you have
the linpopuppackage
# installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup
maintainer are
# working to ease installation and configuration of
linpopup and samba.
;   message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup
"%f" "%m" %s; rm%s' &

# Domain Master specifies Samba to be the Domain
Master Browser. If this
# machine will be configured as a BDC (a secondary
logon server), you
# must set this to 'no'; otherwise, the default
behavior is recommended.
;   domain master = auto

# Some defaults for winbind (make sure you're not
using the ranges
# for something else.)
   idmap uid = 10000-20000
   idmap gid = 10000-20000
   template shell = /bin/bash

#======================= Share Definitions
=======================

# Un-comment the following (and tweak the other
settings below to suit)
# to enable the default home directory shares.  This
will share each
# user's home directory as \\server\username
[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = yes

# By default, \\server\username shares can be
connected to by anyone
# with access to the samba server.  Un-comment the
following parameter
# to make sure that only "username" can connect to
\\server\username
   valid users = %S

# By default, the home directories are exported
read-only. Change next
# parameter to 'yes' if you want to be able to write
to them.
   writable = yes

# File creation mask is set to 0600 for security
reasons. If you want to
# create files with group=rw permissions, set next
parameter to 0664.
   create mask = 0664

# Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security
reasons. If youwant to
# create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next
parameter to 0775.
   directory mask = 0775

# Un-comment the following and create the netlogon
directory for DomainLogons
# (you need to configure Samba to act as a domain
controller too.)
;[netlogon]
;   comment = Network Logon Service
;   path = /home/samba/netlogon
;   guest ok = yes
;   writable = no
;   share modes = no

# Un-comment the following and create the profiles
directory to store
# users profiles (see the "logon path" option above)
# (you need to configure Samba to act as a domain
controller too.)
# The path below should be writable by all users so
that their
# profile directory may be created the first time they
log on
;[profiles]
;   comment = Users profiles
;   path = /home/samba/profiles
;   guest ok = no
;   browseable = no
;   create mask = 0600
;   directory mask = 0700

[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   browseable = no
   path = /var/spool/samba
   printable = yes
   public = no
   writable = no
   create mode = 0700

# Windows clients look for this share name as a source
of downloadable
# printer drivers
[print$]
   comment = Printer Drivers
   path = /var/lib/samba/printers
   browseable = yes
   read only = yes
   guest ok = no
# Uncomment to allow remote administration of Windows
print drivers.
# Replace 'ntadmin' with the name of the group your
admin users are
# members of.
;   write list = root, @ntadmin

# A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others.
;[cdrom]
;   comment = Samba server's CD-ROM
;   writable = no
;   locking = no
;   path = /cdrom
;   public = yes

# The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a
CD-ROM when the
#       cdrom share is accesed. For this to work
/etc/fstab must contain
#       an entry like this:
#
#       /dev/scd0   /cdrom  iso9660
defaults,noauto,ro,user   0 0
#
# The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the
connection to the
#
# If you don't want to use auto-mounting/unmounting
make sure the CD
#       is mounted on /cdrom
#
;   preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom
;   postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom

lchata at ubuntu:/var/log/samba$ 

Would really appreciate very much any help geting
Samba and filesharing to work on my LAN.
TIA,

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net