Problem Accessing Working Samba Share

[SamK]

A share on a TC3.1 machine can be successfully accessed without a password from an Lubuntu 10.04 box using a GUI app, Gigolo 0.4.0.  The share cannot be accessed from a 2nd TC3.1 machine or a Windows XP Pro machine.

SAMBA SERVER TC3.1 MACHINE
Installed (OnBoot):

• filesystems-2.6.33.3-tinycore.tcz
• samba3.tcz

The partition to be shared is NTFS and is successfully mounted /mnt/sdb1.  All files are correctly listed with ls /mnt/sdb1.

/usr/local/etc/samba/smb.conf has been edited to create a single public share.  For the purposes of troublshooting security is not an issue.

Relevant sections of smb.conf

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workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = Samba Server
security = user
log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m
max log size = 50
dns proxy = no
 
###CREATED BY SamK
# A publicly accessible directory, read/write to all users. Note that all files
# created in the directory by users will be owned by the default user, so
# any user with access can delete any other user's files. Obviously this
# directory must be writable by the default user. Another user could of course
# be specified, in which case all files would be owned by that user instead.
[public]
   path = /mnt/sdb1
   public = yes
;   only guest = yes
   writable = yes
   printable = no

The Samba daemons are manually started and status verified
sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/samba start
sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/samba status

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smbd is running.
nmbd is running.

smb.conf reports no issues
testparm

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Load smb config files from /usr/local/etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384)
Processing section "[public]"
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE

[global]
        server string = Samba Server
        log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m
        max log size = 50
        dns proxy = No

[public]
        path = /mnt/sdb1
        read only = No
        guest ok = Yes

The share is published
smbclient --list=server-ipaddress  --user=$USER,%

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Anonymous login successful
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.5]

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        public          Disk     
        IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Samba Server)
Anonymous login successful
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.5]

        Server               Comment
        ---------            -------
        OFFICEPC             Primary XP PC
        BOX                  Samba Server

        Workgroup            Master
        ---------            -------
        WORKGROUP            BOX


XP PRO MACHINE
Both the Samba server machine and the XP Machine are in the same workgroup "WORKGROUP".  The Samba server is visible to the XP machine as a networked resource but will not allow a log-in.  A password is always requested.


2nd TC3.1 MACHINE
Installed (OnBoot):

• filesystems-2.6.33.3-tinycore.tcz
• samba3.tcz

The Samba server is visible to the 2nd TC3.1 machine
smbclient --list=server-ipaddress --user=$USER,%

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Anonymous login successful
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.5]

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        public          Disk     
        IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Samba Server)
Anonymous login successful
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.5]

        Server               Comment
        ---------            -------
        BOX                  Samba Server

        Workgroup            Master
        ---------            -------
        WORKGROUP            BOX

Manually mounting the share fails (same message from each example)
sudo mount -t cifs //server-ipaddress/public /home/tc/NTFSshare -o user=tc,pass=%
OR
sudo mount -t cifs //server-ipaddress/public /home/tc/NTFSshare -o user=$USER,pass=%
OR
sudo mount -t cifs //server-ipaddress/public /home/tc/NTFSshare

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mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
mount: mounting //server-ipaddress/public on /home/tc/NTFSshare failed: Permission denied


[gutmensch]

did you try security = share or setting a tc password via smbpasswd?

[SamK]

did you try...setting a tc password via smbpasswd?

This is not likely to lead to the answer in this instance as I want access to the share to be passwordless (anonymous).  Additionally, Lubuntu+Gigolo 0.4.0 and TC3.1+smbclient are both able to access the share in this way.

did you try security = share...?

Yes, yesterday I spent quite a while trying with this setting; all attempts were unsuccessful.  I thought I would give it a further try before replying to your post.  This time it works.  I will have to review what I did yesterday that is different to today.

Edit - start
I forgot to add the command used to mount the remote share.  Both of these work:

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sudo mount.cifs //server-ipaddress/public /home/tc/NTFSshare -o username=user,password=pw


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sudo mount -t cifs //server-ipaddress/public /home/tc/NTFSshare -o username=$USER,password=%
Edit - end

In any event - thanks for the ideas.

It does leave one question unanswered; how is it that without the need of a password, Lubuntu+Gigolo 0.4.0 can present the share when "security = user" is specified in smb.conf?
  

[schultzter]

Were you actually able to browse the share and open & edit files or just see the root of it listed?  It may have to do with the public = yes parameter (I'm no expert but I that seemed likely to me). 

Do you know if you have to install the samba3 extension if you just want to be a client?  Or is the filesystems extension sufficient (that's all I have installed on boot)?  I can't try it right now but the error message I get was to the effect my mount target was not in fstab - but I'd really rather avoid using fstab since it duplicates administration (add a share to the server and I have to add it to my TC's fstab).

Thanks,

[maro]

As '$USER' (e.g. 'tc') you can only mount file systems as they are listed in '/etc/fstab', but that can be overcome easily by using 'sudo mount ...'

The 'filesystems-...tcz' extension is in my experience fully sufficient for file sharing, as I usually use something like:
    sudo mkdir /mnt/d-drive
    sudo mount -t cifs //10.0.2.2/d$ /mnt/d-drive/ -o user=WIN_USER,pass=WIN_PW
Obviously you'll have to use your own combination of IP address (or host name),  share name, user name and password). I believe the purpose of 'smbclient' (from the 'samba3.tcz' extension) goes much further than merely file sharing (e.g. browsing of shares, printers, users, etc. on the remote system).

To get a better understanding of the available options I'd suggest to query the man-page (the one over at linux.die.net is too outdated, even though it's likely to show up tops when searching with google).


EDIT: Only now did I scroll up on this page and realised that I'm merely repeating the same command that others have already given. Well, I'll hopefully pay more attention to this in the future.

[schultzter]

Okay thanks, that explains my problem, because I was doing a sudo mount ... but I was trying to simply mount the server - not a specific share!

Is there any way I can do something like:
 

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sudo mount -t cifs //nas1 /mnt/nas1 -o user=me,pass=mine
so that all the shares the user 'me' has access to are then available under /mnt/nas1 ?  Without having to list each of them individually?  Also because each user has a personal directory on the server so at least one share/sub-directory would be different for each person in my family.  But since we're all running TC as the tc user it really depends on how we log into the server.