What changed with Samba and tribe5?? [Solved]

[Fintan]

Okay this is my minimalistic smb.conf I use for my internal vmware(xp guest, gutsy tribe5 host) network.

[global]

workgroup = myworkgroup
interfaces = eth0
map to guest = bad user

[Data]

path = /myshare
read only = no
guest ok = yes
case sensitive = no
strict locking = no



[HP880C]

printing = cups
path = /var/tmp
printable = yes
guest ok = yes
guest only = yes

It works fine with feisty (mint cassandra kde community) and worked with Tribe3 as well as pclinuxos 2007 and mepis 7.0 beta.

My shares are fat32.

Doing smb://myworkstation/myshare in konqueror brings up an authentication screen where I am supposed to login. I don't want that!

Now that the msdfs proxy = no plague has gone, have they hidden another bug somewhere else??

Anyone know what has changed and maybe how to fix it??

[artmiller]

Re: What changed with Samba and tribe5??

I too need this answered, opening remote shares is a must in networking. I had to drop back to Freespire 2.0 even though my USB WUA-1340 worked great on tribe 5

[Fintan]

Re: What changed with Samba and tribe5??

Okay, I got this one down.

You have to add:

force user = username

under the "strict locking" line.

Save, restart samba:

sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

and wait.

Samba takes an eternity and a half (about 5-8 min).

[artmiller]

Re: What changed with Samba and tribe5?? [Solved]

Thanks, I will reload it and give it a try.

[artmiller]

Re: What changed with Samba and tribe5?? [Solved]

I could not find the "strict locking" line. I added force user = root force user =group. This allows me to use smb4k but not straight Samba Shares?

[Fintan]

Re: What changed with Samba and tribe5?? [Solved]

Just add this line to the shares:

strict locking = no

Why would you want to force "root"??

[artmiller]

Re: What changed with Samba and tribe5?? [Solved]

I changed force to my user name and added the stricked locking line, OpenOffice writer will still only open via smb4k.

[Fintan]

Re: What changed with Samba and tribe5?? [Solved]

This may seem like a stupid question, but do you have samba installed? It is not installed by default.

[artmiller]

Re: What changed with Samba and tribe5?? [Solved]

Sure, thing. I can go into the Samba Shares and browse just fine, but; when I try to open a file XXX.doc OpenOffice doesn't open it, only through smb4k.

[Fintan]

Re: What changed with Samba and tribe5?? [Solved]

Can you post the fstab for your shares?