SAMBA weird issue...

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#1

Hi, I got a little issue regarding SAMBA…

I have a Windows 7 host, running OpenSUSE 11.2 in VirtualBox VM, networking is set to bridge. I can access every service I have in the Windows 7 box (HTTP, FTP, VNC, etc), but just not SMB share… This is all done over GUI.

If I were to access the share and mount it directly to a folder using CLI, it works normally, no errors, works as intended… Why won’t it connect in GUI?
In the GUI SMB connect, if I put my username/password, it’ll fail as if I use wrong password, but “mount” works normally… Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

zzz2496

Ps. Windows 7 can access OpenSUSE’s SAMBA server normally. OpenSUSE can’t access Windows 7’s shares. Weird…

#2

There’s a few possibilities:

  1. see if the Samba naming daemon is running with this command:
sudo /etc/init.d/nmb status

the command should return “running”.

  1. see if you have a bad Samba rpm (which was circulating a few weeks ago). Run this command:
rpm -qa | grep samba

if the RPMs have this serial “3.4.3”, then run Yast → Software → Online Update and it should be replaced with the corrected version. (it would be a good idea to run the online updater anyway)

These are the front candidates, so try them first

#3

PS just noticed you’re new to the Forums. Welcome!!!

#4

Hi swerdna,

Thanks for the reply, here are the results:

  1. nmb command result: **running
    **2. rpm -qa | grep samba result:

samba-winbind-32bit-3.4.3-3.3.1.x86_64
yast2-samba-client-2.18.3-2.2.noarch
yast2-samba-server-2.18.2-2.1.noarch
samba-winbind-3.4.3-3.3.1.x86_64
samba-3.4.3-3.3.1.x86_64
samba-32bit-3.4.3-3.3.1.x86_64
samba-client-32bit-3.4.3-3.3.1.x86_64
samba-client-3.4.3-3.3.1.x86_64

Those are 3.4.3s, I did online update yesterday, I got those… I tried re-updating, it doesn’t show anything, nothing to be updated…

Thanks in advance,

zzz2496

#5

Whoa, I found your post about bad samba client, I’m updating right now… Will post back ASAP.

zzz2496

#6

Hmm… Every Samba component has been updated to 3.5, but still, I can’t login…

zzz2496

#7

It’s got me beat, I don’t know of any special settings needed for windows 7 (except of course to open up the win7 permissions and set the workgroup the same).

#8

Workgroup is the same “WORKGROUP”, both Win7 and OpenSUSE can see each other. Win7 can access OpenSUSE’s Samba share. The only weird thing is, I can’t even login to Win7’s SMB share, login failed ! The weirder thing is… “mount -t cifs” works as expected, and it didn’t even complain about wrong password, it just mount the share in a folder, and I can have my way on it… Very WEIRD…

zzz2496

#9

On Thu May 13 2010 11:16 pm, swerdna wrote:

>
> zzz2496;2164801 Wrote:
>> Hmm… Every Samba component has been updated to 3.5, but still, I can’t
>> login…
>>
>> zzz2496
>
> It’s got me beat, I don’t know of any special settings needed for
> windows 7 (except of course to open up the win7 permissions and set the
> workgroup the same).
>
>
zzz2496;

What do you get from?


smbclient -L <Win7name> -U<username>%<password>

Where is the netbios name or IP of the Windows 7 box, is
the name of a Win7 user and is the Win7 password of the user.
(Note: if is more than one word, enclose in quotes. Thus the user
John Doe should be entered as “John Doe”.)

What browser are you using? Have you tried different browsers and entered:


smb://<Win7name>
or
smb://<IP of Win7>

If prompted for credentials use a Win7 username and password.

This guide might help. I wrote it a while back and never really polished it
up.

http://forums.opensuse.org/network-internet/428658-proposed-howto-sharing-windows-7-files.html

P. V.
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