Dancing the SaMBa

[Jettah]

Hi there,

Is there someone to dance tha SaMBa with?

I've tried to get SaMBa running again on my A1200, but did not entirely succeed.

Outsets:
- I can ping the other computer
- from the other computer I can ping the A1200

Conclusion up to so far: the connection is O.K.

When running the script that mounts the other computer's C:-drive (how did you guess the other computer is a Windows-jar, eh, eh??) the reply I get is a request to supply a password.

- my account on the OC is without use of a password
- the OC's registry has been set to use plain text passwords
- password supplied is an empty string: P=''

I used to have it solved, but I forgot about it...

Is there any Master of the Dance who can help me out? Or wants to know more specific details? Please let me know.

Regards

Jettah

[Ilwrath]

Well, I'm far from a SAMBA expert.  I've beaten it into submission a few times on various rigs, but usually it's by trial and multiple errors.

Anyhow, I might check how the permissions are set on the remote (Windows) PC.  The "password" it's asking you for may be that stupid "IPC resource" password screen, to which there isn't a valid answer.  What version of Windows is the remote PC, and what access controls do you have set?  (Share level or User level?  Any Domain or AD issues?)

Also, if user level, make sure that from the Amiga side you're providing the username as the same as the account on the remote PC that has no password set.

[doctorq]

Are you using smbclient to get the C: drive mounted on your Miggy? If so, have you tried the -N option?

[KennyR]

Leave out the P="" string completely. A blank password is possibly not the same as no password, as far as SMB-Handler is concerned.

[Jettah]

@ All

I found the solution:
In the mountlist there is a line called Startup.
In the parameters you have to specify the computer you want to connect to (C= parameter).

That specific parameter did read: C=\\:IP-address\C
Now changed it into C=\\:IP-address\

@KennyR
And indeed I left out the P= parameter.

I gave it a go and 'lo and behold': the drive appeared on WB! Fantastic! we've done it, yeah. Grea' ma'!

B.t.w may I be so bold as to endorse a very usefull book on this matter?

Title 'Using Samba'
Author 'Richard Sharpe' (with Tim Potter and Jim Morris)
Publisher 'QUE'
ISBN '0-7897-2319-0'
First Printing 'July 2000'

Number of pages dedicated to Amiga: 3!
Other OS's included: VMS, MVS, VOS, OS/2, UNIX, Linux etc., etc.! A good read and the Amiga is covered pretty well with release 2.0.6 and mentioning of 2.0.7.

Regards and thanks for all your help!

Jettah