Topic: Add RedHat Samba Server to SME Domain

[steve]

Hello
I have searched the posts to no avail...
I have a SME 5.1.2 server acting as PDC (domian master)
I want to add a RedHat 7.x server to my SME domain (samba wise, I want to be able to store files on it in the same workgroup/domain).
I cannot seem to get it to work, I think I am missing a setting somewhere.
The computer shows up in Nethood and I can ping and all, but cannot browse to any of the shares I setup.
#smbclient -L localhost
shows what I expect to see and
testparm shows no errors.

any ideas

thanks

steve

[Derek]

Don't know if this will help you or not, but I have a setup that I think is similar to what you are trying to do. Our PDC is SME 5.1.2 and we have a couple of Mandrake 8.1 servers doing some specialized file server tasks. Here is a snippet from the smb.conf of a server that our audio production department uses to store their audio projects. (Their workstations are Win98 domain members of the SME domain just like the rest of our staff).

[global]
  workgroup = SERVERS
  netbios name = prodserv
  server string = CKUA Production Server
  security = user
  encrypt passwords = yes
  smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd

[workarea]
   comment = CKUA Production Workarea
   path = /home/workarea
   admin users = admin dloewen
   valid users = @prod
   public = no
   guest ok = no
   writable = yes
   read only = no
   create mode = 2770
   inherit permissions = yes

The server is setup with an static IP in the range of the SME DHCP server, with the SME server as it's DNS, and with a hostname belonging to the SME domain. (The SME domain is "ckua.org", so the server is "prodserv.ckua.org")

Use the adduser and smbpasswd -a commands to create users/passwords that match the SME user/passwords. In the "valid users" section of the share, enter either the usernames, or create a group with all the users in it and put "@groupname" in that field.

Hope some of that helps.

Regards,

Derek

[steve]

thanks for the reply Derek!!
I will give it a try.