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Samba making me nuts

I installed Samba fine. I configured a group admincdr with my user name in it. I created a shared directory called [admincdr] with validated users admincdr. I can see the Samba Server when I go to Network Neighborhood from any Windows PC on the network. But when I click on the icon it asks me for a password. (Resource: \\SAMBA\IPC$) I enter all the possible passwords that I have programmed in the linux box but it does not allow me to connect. When I try from another PC it asks me for a username and password. I enter a valid username and password and it does not like it! What should I do?

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inthe

ps:
you will find better explanantions here:

http://home.germany.net/101-69082/samba.html#4.4.

bcoleman

Instead of using valid users = admincdr, use valid users = <your username>

castleinfo

The easy way is to configure samba to make files available as a SHARE not per USER.

This will at least give you the confidence to move on to setting up an encrypted password file etc as in the instructions... It took me a week or so to figure out but once it works it's seemles and doesn't prompt for passwords.

wchance

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He guys it worked, the only problem is that it is very slow. I tried to transfer a 57 meg file and it said it would take an hour. I copied it from a Windows to Windows and it took 2 minutes. Please let me know what I have to fine tune.

inthe

cant help much there but it is certainly a common problem..
pastye the whole link below into your browser window for a listing of other people who have/had same problem:

http://www.deja.com/dnquery.xp?ST=MS&QRY=samba+linux+windows+file+transfer+slow&svcclass=dnserver&DBS=1