Networking (LAN) Imac + linux box

**Posh Tourer :P** · 25th January 2006, 23:56

I must have samba installed, but I dont have that sharing tab on the properties window

**Posh Tourer :P** · 26th January 2006, 02:06

I think the problem currently being experienced is one of password problems. If I change the guest user to one that exists in the linux OS, I dont get prompted for a password, it just freezes. If I try and connect to the linux box with the guest user set to something else (unknown), I get prompted for a user and password, but none of the combos work

**Skunk** · 26th January 2006, 06:37

Well thats shared to everyone (that's EVERYONE) so it's got to be a samba issue or a firewall or sharing. I don't think it's a user/group issue.

Here's another response:

I have only ever set up a linux box to Samba share a directory so that it is accessible from Windows, so I have no idea how to solve your
problem, sorry. However, if you simply want to share directories over
a network, you could look into nfs

http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/

My desktop linux box automatically mounts my linux servers music directory, as if it was a local filesystem.

I guess it depends on your needs (also, nfs might not be supported by Macs, i dont know).

And I don't know if nfs shares are accessible by smb either.

**Posh Tourer :P** · 26th January 2006, 09:39

Well, I dunno.

It must be something to do with this linux requesting something that the imac can't give. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that one does not need to enter a password on Mac startup, while on the linux box you *cannot* set up a password-less account

**Skunk** · 26th January 2006, 09:46

Originally Posted by Posh Tourer :P

Well, I dunno.

It must be something to do with this linux requesting something that the imac can't give. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that one does not need to enter a password on Mac startup, while on the linux box you *cannot* set up a password-less account

The Mac uses SMB. It's a standard so it should work.

I am concerned that sharing does not appear to be enabled on that drive... The permissions are correct for anyone to get in, so from where I am it's a sharing issue.

I'll see if I can find a spare PC and install Linux...

**Posh Tourer :P** · 26th January 2006, 10:38

sharing not enabled on which drive?

**Skunk** · 26th January 2006, 10:47

The music one - hdb3. As you can't get a right click sharing is sharing even an option? Is there another way of calling the sharing options that works?
I see a hand icon - does that mean it is shared?

**Posh Tourer :P** · 26th January 2006, 11:09

The hand icon is a thing you can add to the icon. Doesn´t mean anything really. I use shared folders to share folders. Or I did, but now I use smb.conf, which is the same thing but minus the GUI.

**Skunk** · 26th January 2006, 11:12

Can you try it using the GUI?

**Skunk** · 26th January 2006, 17:49

Another reply...

In the KDE setup pages, there are pages for both Samba and "File Sharing".
Please look through the Intenet/Network setup pages for Ubuntu and make sure
you have visited and filled in the basic Samba settings (enable, workgroup,
create a share).

I did those steps first thing with my system, so for instance, the sharing tab
may only come into existence when it's enabled by that underlying setup.

Let us know what you find.

Guess you would have done all that. If you can confirm I'll reply to him.

**Posh Tourer :P** · 26th January 2006, 23:33

Perhaps he has a different version of samba?
If you look back through my smb.conf files that I've posted, I have created shares, etc etc etc....

Using the GUI was how I originally set up shares. I've since modified some (but not all) of the shares I've set up.

**Skunk** · 27th January 2006, 06:31

I'll get back to him.
I've downloaded Ubuntu Breezy Badger and will install it tonight (I have borrowed a PC) and will check the networking once I have that done. I don't have Tiger on the Mac, only Panther but I don't expect Tiger to be worst than Panther - more likely the other way around.

**Skunk** · 27th January 2006, 18:14

Currently installing Ubuntu... meanwhile I've got two more replies which I'll quote here anyway:

I think there may be a samba setting that equates samba user accounts with
established (Linux) user accounts, but it may not be default behavior.

On the linux systems I set up at work to provide CVS, I have to create samba
user names and passwords before people can sign in. The samba command is
'smbpasswd'. Try using that on the Ubuntu box to set up a user name and
password (just something simple to try it) and see if the Mac can use that to
connect to a share.

In your smb.conf add a share like this :

[share1]
path=/some/path/here
public=yes
browsable=yes
read only = no

then see if you can mount that

If that works then just firewall smb and leave it alone ;-)

**Skunk** · 27th January 2006, 21:37

Got Ubuntu installed and worked on this for three hours... I thought it had me beat. The box couldn't even connect to itself...

Simple really: the password for the SMB share is set in the terminal with the command 'smbpasswd -e username'. But first you must enable root and log in as root. Ubuntu has root disabled by default.

So
1. enable root,
2. set smb password,
3. activate smb,
4. setup smb share.

These I did via GUI except 1 & 2.

Let me know how you get on.

Originally Posted by Posh Tourer :P

Well, I dunno. It must be something to do with this linux requesting something that the imac can't give. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that one does not need to enter a password on Mac startup, while on the linux box you *cannot* set up a password-less account

How right you were for the wrong-ish reasons.

Once you've got this going I'll show you how to make the Mac mount it at start-up.