Cannot authenticate to Samba shares

Hi all,

I’ve created two Samba shares. They are folders on /data. This is my first time doing this, so please be gentle with me. I’ve disabled AppArmor, which seemed to help others. I have an openSUSE 13.2 install on another machine, and I cannot authenticate to the shares. I try to authenticate through Dolphin on my Leap 42.1 machine, and I can’t even authenticate there! Here’s the smb.conf file. What am I doing wrong?

smb.conf is the main Samba configuration file. You find a full commented

version at /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/examples/smb.conf.SUSE if the

samba-doc package is installed.

[global]
workgroup = Home
passdb backend = tdbsam
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
printcap cache time = 750
cups options = raw
map to guest = Bad User
include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
logon path = \%L\profiles.msprofile
logon home = \%L%U.9xprofile
logon drive = P:
usershare allow guests = No
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d /var/lib/nobody -s /bin/false %m$
domain logons = No
domain master = No
security = user
wins support = No
wins server =
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S, %D%w%S
browseable = No
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
[profiles]
comment = Network Profiles Service
path = %H
read only = No
store dos attributes = Yes
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700
[users]
comment = All users
path = /home
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
veto files = /aquota.user/groups/shares/
[groups]
comment = All groups
path = /home/groups
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes
create mask = 0600
browseable = No
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/drivers
write list = @ntadmin root
force group = ntadmin
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775

Share disabled by YaST

[netlogon]

guest ok = Yes

[videoshare]
comment = Share to all the videos
inherit acls = Yes
path = /data/videos
read only = No

[audioshare]
comment = Songs and OTR
inherit acls = Yes
path = /data/audio
read only = No
vfs objects =

Thanks,
Mike

What I’m seeing with the newest Samba versions is, the User-name/Password pair can no longer contain null strings. The passwords used for the Samba shares do not have to be anything fancy but, they can no longer be empty/null.

Thanks!! That got me started down the right path! I allowed guest access to the audio share and that allowed me to connect without credentials. For the video share, I followed the directions in this thread to provide Samba credentials!

Thanks very much again!!

Mike