Has anyone setup samba on Linux successfully? I had Red Hat 6.2 and went through the config. in /etc/smb.conf. The daemons of smbd and nmdb started OK, but when I tried smbclient -L locolhost, it came back with error: Can not start smb session. Any ideas?
I was able to get it working on RH 7.1, 7.2 and Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1. In the smb.conf file, usually be default there is a line commented with a ; that says IP's Allowed. Make sure that is uncommented and you add your IP to the list. You only need the first 3 octets of the IP followed by a dot. i.e. 127.0.0. That was the key to getting mine to work. What was the error message when you tried it? That would help me help you a little better because in getting it to work, I probably ran across every error possible.
Gregg, Thanks for the reply. The message that I got when starting smbclient is session request to localhost failed session request to *SMBSERVER failed I wish there were more meaningful message that may hint what is wrong. If you don't mind, could you list steps and parameters to get samba up and running? At least that could help to rule out any possible installation problem on my machine. Thanks.
You bet I will. Though it will be later before I can. I need to get my paper from home where I wrote down the entire process. I can give you a link that will help you. This is how I learned to do it. http://us1.samba.org/samba/samba.html That is the homepage for the following link: http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html That link is awesome, tells you almost everything you need to know to get it up and running. Let me know if you still need my process, but it is basically taken from that page.
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