Mon, Nov 02, 2009
Samba
Posted to Technology category
Argh. I finally got samba working, but it took all day and isn't based on making sense of the documentation (which is very sparse). At least the permissions bug that broke things after the transition from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 seems to be fixed in 9.10.
I tried settings from a bunch of different sites that I googled, and even reinstalled pam, krb5 and samba when things had gotten very hung up at one point.
The final set of settings that worked were from HowtoForge.
There is still a problem with samba (even though it is working enough for the windows images to see the files on the host now). The utility for starting and stopping the samba services does not seem able to stop nmbd.
Tomorrow I will reinstall db2, the last major piece of infrastructure I need.