3.4-3.rc3 and SAMBA

Did you have to do anything special to get it to get Samba to work? can you read and write to your Linux shares?

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Well I don't think I had to do any thing special, just open Control Center, Internet & Network, Samba. Log in as root and add Users and Shares. Good Luck.

I did what you suggested. Now, I can open a share on another linux PC2 and drag a file from it to the PC1, but I can't write to PC2 from PC1. If I go to PC2, I can drag a file over from PC1, but I can't write to PC1 from PC2.

When I'm in the Control center, Internet & Network, Samba, I log in as root and my share is there already. I go to users, add a user, it pops up a list, i select my username, it asks for a PW and I enter one, and apply it, but it doesnt' stay in the list.

I downloaded the Samba PDF. Its got 948 pages! It's getting discouraging ;(

The default samba setup has security = share. Change the /etc/samba/smb.conf according to the example:
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;*******************section global*****************
[global]

# Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
printing = cups
workgroup = mepisgrp
server string = %h server (Samba %v)
hosts allow = 192.168.0. 192.168.1. 192.168.2. 192.168.79. 127.
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096
passdb backend = tdbsam guest
dns proxy = no
max log size = 1000
restrict anonymous = no
domain master = yes
preferred master = yes
max protocol = NT
ldap ssl = No
server signing = Auto
security = user
encrypt passwords = No
;*******************section homes*****************
[homes]
comment = home
read only = No
create mask = 0750
browseable = Yes
;*******************section printers*****************
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /tmp
browseable = no
printable = yes
guest ok = yes
create mask = 0700
print command = lpr -P %p -o raw %s -r
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Hope that helps.

Newbie or not Newbie, there's always a question

Carlops:

I did it, and it didn't help. What version of Mepis and Samba are you using? When I try to write to my other Mepis share on another pC it says: "Access denied. Could not write to smb://server/share/testfile."

Ok I finally got it to work and the answer had nothing to do with samba settings. I went into my /home and right clicked on /home/mross (my home directory) and clicked on Properties, then Permissions and changed it so Group and Others can View and Modify content. I did this on both Mepis PC's and voila! now I can write to both of them. Shouldn't this be taken care of when setting up Samba???