hi there, I am a noob. I dont know where is the best section to ask this question?.. I am having a hard time getting xp home to open my shares on opensuse 12.1 samba it gives me the option to inert the user name and password, when I am using xp home, browsing the folders on the server. when I click on the any of the share folders, when it asks me to put the correct user name and password, in the pop up window, user name and password keeps poping backup again and I can not gain access. I used youtube videos and I have done some reading… back to my question is there a issue with samba and xp home?
Hope these help. After looking through this stuff, we may want to see your /etc/samba/smb.conf file. You can use this terminal command to see it:
cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
You can copy it and paste it into a message here using the advanced message editor and then place it within code # tags to prevent it from being modified. To view the file in less (q=quit) use this command:
The default Samba setup creates fictitious shares that require username/password authentication. Authentication is made against the Samba user database in openSUSE. The two problems are (1) the shares are fictitious and (2) you likely haven’t added any users to the samba user database.
So there are two issues and you have to fix them to proceed.
You should restructure the Samba configuration according to this Tutorial to make the problem go away: Samba Lan Primer
If that’s too hard at this stage, just post here the contents of the file smb.conf (the Samba configuration file) and we could advise you directly.
Thanks guys, for coming back so quickly I appreciate your knowhow and the time that you took to help out by, pointing me in the right direction. My problem was a simple one… I added the users to opensusse and also samba too. but I had to add them via the terminal window too setup the user and password. so yes. I feel like I won the lottery. what a rush. YES I have successfuly created my first share. thanks to you guys.