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gab10
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 Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 1:17 am Post subject: Samba problem |
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| I have a Gentoo headless box running samba that I can't seem to access from my newly built Gentoo desktop machine. I can access the shares on the samba server perfectly from an OS X box and a Windows box, so I am thinking I set up something wrong when I was setting up the new Gentoo machine. I can use 'Connect to Server' in Nautilus and enter the machine name. When I do, it gives me a mounted folder icon on my desktop, but if I doubleclick it just brings up an empty nautilus window with the little watch cursor and never prompts me for my password. Does anyone have any idea where I should start looking to troubleshoot this? |
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atdsm
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| Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 5:52 am Post subject: |
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I would start troubleshooting by using the command line Samba utilities. You can get a good list of them by typing "smb" in a terminal then hitting tab a couple times.
First try smbtree to see what it tells you about Samba shares on your network. Presumably you should see information about your other machine.
Next try mounting the share manually with smbmount. This would look something like this:
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smbmount //{SOURCEPC}/{SOURCESHARE} /tmp/smbmount -o username={USERLOGIN},password={PASS}
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where obviously everything in brackets is the information you need to access your other gentoo box. Oh, and obviously the directory /tmp/smbmount has to exist first or this won't work.
I guess I'm assuming that you already have samba installed and smb file system support compiled into your kernel... but those would be things to check too I guess.
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