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Old 04-30-2001, 05:35 PM   #1
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I continue to struggle with Samba, or more likely the Win98 side.
I can see the samba shares in network neighbourhood
I can delete/create/copy in the shares from windopy.
Once I have created a file, and then try to save changes, windows (specifically word) stops and thinks for a while, then says save failed due to file permissions. Surely if I created the file from the windopygit box, I should be able to change it. SWAT status screen shows the connection/share active and a rapidly changing list of files, which say read/write allowed, but then when I try to save the file says read only, or even write only (seem to be the word tmp files.
I accessed samba shares from msdos prompt, which showed shares active as in NN, but a net use said incorrect password (I fear I checked the wingit box of forever remembering passwords!). It let me enter the password (unchanged from when winarse offered to remember) and it then worked.
I am very confused!
Anyone have any ideas?
Standard support line idea ...format C:s and reinstall windows. Would love to ditch it, but have camera and scanner, so need it for now. Linuxquestions.org answer awaited.
 
Old 04-30-2001, 05:40 PM   #2
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Can save from notepad, but slows down to a crawl.
C'mon guys, any ideas??
 
Old 05-01-2001, 02:32 PM   #3
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Greetings
Found the partial solution to this at Linux Newbie BBS. Windows creates files with mode 0744 and directories with 0755. Need to set force create mode and force directory mode to 0770, which I did via SWAT. I've managed to lose the windoze remembering passwords stuff, and entering password directly it works. Can read and write, but after the first file access, it slows to a crawl, and windoze hangs. I have looked at the Micrococks support site which said something about smbsigning (authenticate all files for extra security on leaky networks, I wonder whose fault that would be!!), but it is apparently not enabled in win98 unless you edit the registry, and I don't fancy that!
Someone MUST know what to do with this!
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Old 05-03-2001, 02:59 AM   #4
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Angry

I take it no one here knows what to do with Samba. Heading for the bookshop soon.
 
Old 05-04-2001, 07:07 PM   #5
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Samba

I think the problem is not that no one uses or knows Samba, but that no one has seen your problem before.

I hate to say it, but it really sounds like you didn't set Samba up correctly. I have Samba running both at work and at home and following the instructions outlined in the SMB howto on Linuxdoc.org to simulate a Windows file server, and have never had a problem.

I do think that heading for the bookshop or maybe http://www.linuxdoc.org and http://www.samba.org might be a good idea.
 
Old 05-10-2001, 08:50 AM   #6
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Fixed it!
I spent 4 hours last night reading "using samba" off the SWAT homepage. Followed their tutorial etc. redid smb.conf with their simple files (removed original). still didn't work. checked their win98 setup, and decided to reinstall all protocols. Then noticed I had MS family logon as well as client for MS networks. Removed it, and it seems to work. Undoubtedly this caused an authentication error. Interestingly, the files that were created during the problems won't open with word 2k, it says it doesn't support the format (offers to install, but I've "lost" the CD's). I think they just got corrupted. Have many copies, so deleted them. Still got to set up printing (transferred to winmachine at present), but I have hope now!!!!
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