Help needed with Samba

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Baldur2630
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Help needed with Samba

Post by Baldur2630 » 2018/05/24 07:53:05

I had Samba shares working perfectly, both ways using CentOS 5. (Not sure how I did it!) When I upgraded to CentOS 6, I had a lot of problems but I managed to get it workimng so that I could access samba shares from Windows 7, bit not the other way round.

Now I'm on CentOS 7.5 and I can't get anything working at all.

If I try to see Windows computers from CentOS, I get an Empty Page
If I try to connect to Samba shares from Windows, I can 'see' the share, but when it asks me for a username and password, it just keeps refusing it.

Here is my "sanitized" smb.conf :

[global]
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
load printers = no
domain master = no
hosts allow = 127. 192.168.0.0/24
encrypt passwords = yes
realm = xxx.mydomain.com
passdb backend = tdbsam
netbios name = CentOS-73
cups options = raw
server string = Samba Server Version %v
password server = My-DC.xxx.mydomain.com
workgroup = MYOB
os level = 20
printcap name = /dev/null
security = ads
max log size = 5
; domain logons = yes

# log files split per-machine:
# enable the following line to debug:
# log level =3
# maximum size of 50KB per log file, then rotate:
; id map config * : backend -tdb

# Not interested in printers

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = yes
writable = yes
# valid users = %S
valid users = MYOB\%S

[Web]
comment = Web Servers
browseable = yes
writable = yes
path = /var/www/
guest ok = no
# valid users = %S
valid users = MYOB\%S

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

#[netlogon]
# comment = Network Logon Service
# path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
# guest ok = no
# writable = no

# Un-comment the following to provide a specific roaming profile share.
# The default is to use the user's home directory:

[Profiles]
# path = /var/lib/samba/profiles
# browseable = no
# guest ok = yes

Before you say it - I really DON'T know what I'm doing). I still have big 'L' Plates. I work mainly with Windows. I WANT to get rid of windows, but I still don't have all the skills I need to be comfortable with it. I find Samba difficult, non-intuitive and unforgiving. The other Linux stuff, I think I'm doing OK.

A bit of SIMPLE hand-holding would be nice. PLEASE!

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