Need help with samba in debian/webmin

[m-jeri]

Hi All..

This is for my seagate dockstar...

installed debain..webmin..transmission and samba... need help to set up that

The USB stick i used to install the stuff 2GB one, in that 1 GB is a NTFS partition.

I need to access that from Windows.

I installed the samba.. and mounted the partition to a \Data directory.
which is mounted always (Dir name is Downloads). Then on the share properties
i have added that to WORKGROUP also.

And on browsing the network places in my windows 7 machine i can see the shares.
home(teh default one) and download.

On clicking them i am asked the user name and pwd. i tried my root user and pwd
but no use.

SO i guess i need to figure out the user part only.. i guess

if so can u say how to do it?

I tried converting unix to samba conversion.. but it adds lot of users.. like list and all.. :S..
which i have no idea who they are. and on checking the edit user option.
I get the unix user list. but no root in it either..

help please..

 

[Checksum]

Try enabling guest share in smb.conf. Just add

guest ok = yes

to the [share] that you are trying to access

 

[m-jeri]

Already given guest permission... via webmin... will try this also..

 

[TEUser2K1]

may be you need to use smbadd and smbpasswd commands ?

 

[m-jeri]

whats that.. please explain?

--- Updated Post - Automerged ---

u mean to create a new user and give pwd using

smbpasswd -a <user_name> ?

 

[TEUser2K1]

Though I haven't tested samba much, I think you may need to use smbadd, smbpasswd. Can you test in those lines ?

 

[m-jeri]

okay.. will get back here once i do.

 

[Compiler]

I would recommend you to manually configure it.

Check if following manual helps.

Linux Learning: samba

 

[m-jeri]

checking up on it.