[K12OSN] OT - Setting up Samba on k12ltsp for Ubuntu and XP clients?
Carl Keil
carl at snarlnet.com
Thu Mar 5 06:36:15 UTC 2009
Thanks for the reply.
I never looked at any sort of smb config on the clients. It is weird
because when I browse "WORKGROUP" on the network, other servers (XP
machines that have Windows File Sharing turned on) show up, but not my
Samba Server.
I'll try poking around in there.
> Longshot: do all the Linux machines have the same WORKGROUP specified in smb.conf? I'm not sure if the "Connect to Server" dialog cares about that or
> not, but I'd check it if you don't have any other leads.
>
> -Rob
>
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 05:26:27PM -0800, Carl Keil wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I'm running an old server (the Fedora 6 version of k12ltsp). I'm trying
> > to set up a Samba share on it that people can access equally easily from
> > Ubuntu 8.04 or Windows XP clients. The Windows clients seem to work how
> > I want them to, but the Ubuntu clients are acting weird. I'm going
> > through the "Places" menu and adding the server via "Connect to Server"
> > selecting "Windows Share" and typing in the IP/share name etc. Then it
> > asks for the password. When I type in the password and click OK,
> > sometimes it "takes" and sometimes it doesn't. Even when it works it
> > pops up an error message saying that the share wasn't mounted. But when
> > you go back to "Places" it's there. Also, I have 2 shares, one of them
> > works as above, and seems OK once you get in. But the other shows up,
> > and you can create files and folders, but then you can't edit them in
> > applications or save them from within applications. Even though you
> > just created them.
> >
> > This is for a school of mixed ages. None of this is user friendly
> > enough on Ubuntu. I thought about doing an NFS share of the same
> > directories. But someone on this list a long time ago warned me against
> > "mixing" shares as both NFS and Samba. He said stuff could get all
> > bolluxed up.
> >
> > Does anyone have a "HowTo" or a good link that will walk me through a
> > good setup? I've been googling and everything is assuming that I've got
> > an Ubuntu server serving Ubuntu and XP clients. I've tried adapting the
> > suggestions in there with no luck.
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