Connect to my XP and Mint laptop

[jhouse59]

I'm using Mint 5.0. Can someone tell me how to set it up so I can let my Windows XP connect to it? And, Mint can connect to XP. I've got pyNeighborhood installed. From a Terminal I can ping the Windows machine. When I open Explorer then click on Tools. Then click Map Network Drive and then Browse. I can see my Mint machine. But, it want let my select it. Also, I've got Mint 5.0 on my laptop. How can I connect to it?

[jhouse59]

Update:

I'm using Mint 5.0. Can someone tell me how to set it up so I can let my Windows XP connect to it? And, Mint can connect to XP. I've got pyNeighborhood installed. From a Terminal I can ping the Windows machine. When I open Explorer then click on Tools. Then click Map Network Drive and then Browse. I can see my Mint machine. But, it want let my select it. Also, I've got Mint 5.0 on my laptop. How can I connect to it?

I've got my desketop and laptop in Mint (5.0) to work. The only thing is I can see my laptop icon on my desktop machine. On my laptop the icon doesn't show up for me to click on it. I have to type the address t access my desktops share folders.
But, still can't connect to Windows XP machine.
There is one thing for my laptop. How come it gives two IP address for the wireless and cable conections?

[naesa]

Hi Jhouse.

Could you please try to break it down into more of a straight forward question i'm not sure i understand what your issues are.
As to giving 2 ipadresses, if you're saying that each interface gets a different adress that's how it's supposed to work.

[jhouse59]

Hi Jhouse.

As to giving 2 ipadresses, if you're saying that each interface gets a different adress that's how it's supposed to work.

Yes, thats what I meant. I thought since it was the same computer. It would have the same IP address.

[jhouse59]

I did have it fixed so I could connect to my Mint machines. I used the generic version of the smb.conf file at the forum How to share files between Xp and LM(in VB) using Samba at this link http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... 50&t=12644. I was hoping to get Mint and XP to see each other.
But, when I configured my smb.conf file on my desktop machine. I could still connect to the laptop, but the laptop couldn't connect to the desktop machine. So I configured my smb.conf file om my laptop machine. Now none of them can see each other.

Here is the smb.conf on my laptop: I set the laptop and desktop up like each other:

#

# Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux.

#

#

# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the

# smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed

# here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options most of which

# are not shown in this example

#

# Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash)

# is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a #

# for commentary and a ; for parts of the config file that you

# may wish to enable

#

# NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command

# "testparm" to check that you have not made any basic syntactic

# errors.

#



#======================= Global Settings =======================



[global]



## Browsing/Identification ###



# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of

workgroup = HOME



# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field

server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)



# Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:

# WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server

; wins support = no



# WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client

# Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both

; wins server = w.x.y.z



# This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.

dns proxy = no



# What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names

# to IP addresses

name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast



#### Networking ####



# The specific set of interfaces / networks to bind to

# This can be either the interface name or an IP address/netmask;

# interface names are normally preferred

interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 wlano eth0



# Only bind to the named interfaces and/or networks; you must use the

# 'interfaces' option above to use this.

# It is recommended that you enable this feature if your Samba machine is

# not protected by a firewall or is a firewall itself. However, this

# option cannot handle dynamic or non-broadcast interfaces correctly.

bind interfaces only = true







#### Debugging/Accounting ####



# This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine

# that connects

log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m



# Cap the size of the individual log files (in KiB).

max log size = 1000



# If you want Samba to only log through syslog then set the following

# parameter to 'yes'.

; syslog only = no



# We want Samba to log a minimum amount of information to syslog. Everything

# should go to /var/log/samba/log.{smbd,nmbd} instead. If you want to log

# through syslog you should set the following parameter to something higher.

syslog = 0



# Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace

panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d





####### Authentication #######



# "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account

# in this server for every user accessing the server. See

# /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/ServerType.html

# in the samba-doc package for details.

security = user



# You may wish to use password encryption. See the section on

# 'encrypt passwords' in the smb.conf(5) manpage before enabling.

encrypt passwords = true



# If you are using encrypted passwords, Samba will need to know what

# password database type you are using.

passdb backend = tdbsam



obey pam restrictions = yes



; guest account = nobody

invalid users = root



# This boolean parameter controls whether Samba attempts to sync the Unix

# password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the

# passdb is changed.

; unix password sync = no



# For Unix password sync to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following

# parameters must be set (thanks to Ian Kahan <<kahan@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> for

# sending the correct chat script for the passwd program in Debian Sarge).

passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u

passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .



# This boolean controls whether PAM will be used for password changes

# when requested by an SMB client instead of the program listed in

# 'passwd program'. The default is 'no'.

; pam password change = yes



# This option controls how nsuccessful authentication attempts are mapped

# to anonymous connections

map to guest = bad user



########## Domains ###########



# Is this machine able to authenticate users. Both PDC and BDC

# must have this setting enabled. If you are the BDC you must

# change the 'domain master' setting to no

#

; domain logons = yes

#

# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set

# It specifies the location of the user's profile directory

# from the client point of view)

# The following required a [profiles] share to be setup on the

# samba server (see below)

; logon path = \\%N\profiles\%U

# Another common choice is storing the profile in the user's home directory

; logon path = \\%N\%U\profile



# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set

# It specifies the location of a user's home directory (from the client

# point of view)

; logon drive = H:

; logon home = \\%N\%U



# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set

# It specifies the script to run during logon. The script must be stored

# in the [netlogon] share

# NOTE: Must be store in 'DOS' file format convention

; logon script = logon.cmd



# This allows Unix users to be created on the domain controller via the SAMR

# RPC pipe. The example command creates a user account with a disabled Unix

# password; please adapt to your needs

; add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser --quiet --disabled-password --gecos "" %u



########## Printing ##########



# If you want to automatically load your printer list rather

# than setting them up individually then you'll need this

; load printers = yes



# lpr(ng) printing. You may wish to override the location of the

# printcap file

; printing = bsd

; printcap name = /etc/printcap



# CUPS printing. See also the cupsaddsmb(8) manpage in the

# cupsys-client package.

; printing = cups

; printcap name = cups



############ Misc ############



# Using the following line enables you to customise your configuration

# on a per machine basis. The %m gets replaced with the netbios name

# of the machine that is connecting

; include = /home/samba/etc/smb.conf.%m



# Most people will find that this option gives better performance.

# See smb.conf(5) and /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/speed.html

# for details

# You may want to add the following on a Linux system:

# SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

socket options = TCP_NODELAY



# The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package

# installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are

# working to ease installation and configuration of linpopup and samba.

; message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s' &



# Domain Master specifies Samba to be the Domain Master Browser. If this

# machine will be configured as a BDC (a secondary logon server), you

# must set this to 'no'; otherwise, the default behavior is recommended.

; domain master = auto



# Some defaults for winbind (make sure you're not using the ranges

# for something else.)

; idmap uid = 10000-20000

; idmap gid = 10000-20000

; template shell = /bin/bash



# The following was the default behaviour in sarge,

# but samba upstream reverted the default because it might induce

# performance issues in large organizations.

# See Debian bug #368251 for some of the consequences of *not*

# having this setting and smb.conf(5) for details.

; winbind enum groups = yes

; winbind enum users = yes



# Setup usershare options to enable non-root users to share folders

# with the net usershare command.



# Maximum number of usershare. 0 (default) means that usershare is disabled.

; usershare max shares = 100



# Allow users who've been granted usershare privileges to create

# public shares, not just authenticated ones

usershare allow guests = yes



#======================= Share Definitions =======================



# Un-comment the following (and tweak the other settings below to suit)

# to enable the default home directory shares. This will share each

# user's home directory as \\server\username

;[homes]

comment = Home Directories

browseable = no



# By default, the home directories are exported read-only. Change the

# next parameter to 'no' if you want to be able to write to them.

read only = no



# File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to

# create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.

create mask = 0700



# Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to

# create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.

directory mask = 0700



# By default, \\server\username shares can be connected to by anyone

# with access to the samba server. Un-comment the following parameter

# to make sure that only "username" can connect to \\server\username

# This might need tweaking when using external authentication schemes

valid users = %S



# Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons

# (you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.)

;[netlogon]

; comment = Network Logon Service

; path = /home/samba/netlogon

; guest ok = yes

; read only = yes

; share modes = no



# Un-comment the following and create the profiles directory to store

# users profiles (see the "logon path" option above)

# (you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.)

# The path below should be writable by all users so that their

# profile directory may be created the first time they log on

;[profiles]

; comment = Users profiles

; path = /home/samba/profiles

; guest ok = no

; browseable = no

; create mask = 0600

; directory mask = 0700



wins support = no

[printers]

comment = All Printers

browseable = no

path = /var/spool/samba

printable = yes

guest ok = no

read only = yes

create mask = 0700



# Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable

# printer drivers

[print$]

comment = Printer Drivers

path = /var/lib/samba/printers

browseable = yes

read only = yes

guest ok = no

# Uncomment to allow remote administration of Windows print drivers.

# Replace 'ntadmin' with the name of the group your admin users are

# members of.

; write list = root, @ntadmin



# A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others.

;[cdrom]

; comment = Samba server's CD-ROM

; read only = yes

; locking = no

; path = /cdrom

; guest ok = yes



# The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the

# cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain

# an entry like this:

#

# /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0

#

# The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the

#

# If you don't want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD

# is mounted on /cdrom

#

; preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom

; postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom





# [jhouse59]

# path = /home/jhouse59

# available = yes

# browsable = yes

# public = yes

# writable = yes



[laptop-share]

path = /home/jhouse59/laptop-share

comment = laptop-share

available = yes

browsable = yes

public = no

writable = yes

valid users = jhouse59

I ran the

sudo testparm

it didn't show any errors. I restarted the samba daemons so that they could read the new configuration . I even restarted my computers. I don't know what else to do.
I hope someone can tell me how to get this fixed.

[jhouse59]

I changed a few things in the smb.conf. I got the two Mint machines talking again. I just have to enter the address of each machine by hand. Wish the icons would show up. But, when one or both machines are off for a while. Its like they forget each other. I booted my desktop into the Windows partition. Then when I booted it back into the the Mint. Its like the two Mints couldn't see each other.

Does anyone know whats going on with this?????