Samba w/ WinXp- not working!

[ShadowQ]

Right, samba seems simple enough to set it up, and I've seen it done plenty of times before- but doesn't seem to like me.

Fedora6 on one machine, which Samba running, with shares set up and unix users set up- but when I try to connect with any of several XP machines, it keeps compaining incorrect username/password. Not sure if I'm going to be able to get any help on this- as it's a pretty vague problem aye?

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers.

-JJ

[chicom9]

yeah thats a common problem have u set up your samba users along with their passwords??

goto administration -> server settings -> samba

at the samba configuration click samba users

click add user

for windows user: type the xp user account

samba password: select a password

confirm password:

done!!!

just restart ur samba service

should work now

[ShadowQ]

Still no good.

Now when I goto connect from my windows machine, it just keeps coming up with trying to connect as guest and i have no option to be able to connect as a different user.
grr

[marcrblevins]

su -
cd /etc/samba
testparm smb.conf

Show us the result.

[marcrblevins]

Here is my configuration. It works for me
su -
cd /etc/samba
ls
lmhosts secrets.tdb smb.conf smb.conf.orginal smbpasswd smbusers
testparm smb.conf
Load smb config files from smb.conf
Processing section "[homes]"
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[tmp]"
Processing section "[helpfiles]"
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

[global]
workgroup = LXHOME
server string = Samba Server
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast
domain master = Yes
dns proxy = No
wins support = Yes
hosts allow = 192.168.1., 127.
cups options = raw

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S
read only = No
browseable = No

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba

[chicom9]

please post ur samba config file ??

[marcrblevins]

Ok, save a copy of your original and compare it.

[ShadowQ]

Thanks for your help.

I compared my samba.conf file with yours and I had a lot more settings in global, so I commented them out, and I still had no luck. I then tried messing around with SELinux, and couldn't get anyway- but then found that if I disabled SELinux, I could now get in from my windows machine! (Also added security = SHARE to global)

So all was running fine, so I started fiddling with setting up calenders and mail etc for users, (and I'm pretty sure I didn't change anything to do with samba) but now, I'm getting xp machines trying to connect as guest again!!

Tempermental...

Any Ideas?

(Sorry it took a while to reply)