Hi,

Im running a fedora 2 box that I have joined to our windows 2003 domain.
I can see the pc in the active directory.

The 1st problem I have is that I cannot copy anything to the share that I made on the linux box - I did enable it for read + write access.

The 2nd problem is that from the linux box I cannot access any windows pc or their shares except the windows pc's where I am logged in with the user that I used to join the domain.

Any ideas ???

This post has been edited by Ianvn: Sep 21 2004, 06:05 AM

you have to remember that samba usually is setup for user-level sharing, meaning that only users which you give specific access to will be able to do what you're experiencing in problem 1. Unfortunately i dont have any experience using fedora, so i can't point you in a utility that might fix it, other than editing the /etc/samba/smb.conf file yourself and giving guests read/write access to the share. It would probably be the easiest.

The second problem is kindof related to the first one, only its reversed in the sense that you will need to supply a username/password for the linux box to use to connect to the windows pc shares on the rest of your network. Is the user you are using on the linux box in the AD domain? Are you 100% sure that you are logged into the domain? Maybe the computer/user needs to be in a specific group in order to access shares on the other pcs...

thanks for the reply.

I am quite new to linux so any help would really be appreciated.

I am posting my smb.conf file - maybe you can see something I am doing wrong

# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = DOMAINNAME
realm = DOMAINNAME.CO.ZA
security = ADS
password server = *
guest ok = yes

[homes]
comment = %u's Home Directory
writeable = yes

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = Yes
browseable = No

[Stores]
path = /Stores
create mask = 0755
valid users = USERNAME
writeable = yes

I am able to write and read from the domain user's home directory. So at least that part is working. It is the Stores directory that I cannot write to.

How do I make sure that my linux box is logged in to the domain ??? Can this even be done ??