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Tue Apr 16 08:42:58 EDT 2002


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I believe the older samba defaulted to a setting &quot;share=user&quot; , change that to &quot;share=share&quot;. If it is set to &quot;user&quot;, that is probably your problem. Make that change in the global settings if you wish to have all shares that way.
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On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 07:10, Riga, Anthony wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>I finally got it to work! I made configurations to host.allow and it worked.I was able to edit SWAT. My Windows 2000 computer is able to see the MYShare incon in Network Neigh but I still cant access the shared folder I created in 7.2 Linux! </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>From: Charles Rishel [mailto:chaz03 at localnet.com]</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 2:13 AM</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>To: nflug at nflug.org</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Subject: Re: </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Tony,</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>You may want to also do a couple of things..</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>1.  make sure samba daemon is running..</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>[chaz at bleys chaz]$ ps -A | grep mb</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>   507 ?        00:00:00 smbd</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>   517 ?        00:00:00 nmbd</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>You should see output such as that..</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>2.  Check your config file (/etc/smb.conf) and ensure that access is allowed..</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Similar to this..</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I># This option is important for security. It allows you to restrict</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I># connections to machines which are on your local network. The</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I># following example restricts access to two C class networks and</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I># the &quot;loopback&quot; interface. For more examples of the syntax see</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I># the smb.conf man page</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>    hosts allow = 192.168.1. 127.0.0.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>That's a start.. look for that and let us know your progress..</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Chaz&#174;</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>At 09:33 AM 4/15/02 -0400, you wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>&gt;I installed &amp;.2 Redhat on my second hard drive dual boot and it worked out </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>&gt;ok. It has some really nice features. I also installed Samba because I </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>&gt;want to learn it. When I try to use SWAT on the web browser it dosent let </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>&gt;me connect to SWAT. It gives me an error 127.0.0.1:901 it wont open the </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>&gt;port. I went the Samba.org page for help and did everything possible to </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>&gt;get it to work. I can ping 127.0.0.1 and get a response. Has any one set </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>&gt;up Samba and had these issues? I really need help. Also every once in </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>&gt;awhile on 7.2 I lose my start menu. It just disappears. Has anyone had </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>&gt;this problem before happen. I have too log out and log in to get them back!</FONT></FONT></I>
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