I'm sorry to ask what seems to be such a popular, over-asked question but I've done my digging and can't, for the life of me, log into my Ubuntu 14.04 samba share with Windows 7. Here's my smb.conf file:
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = Samba Server %v
netbios name = ubuntu
security = user
map to guest = bad user
name resolve order = bcast host
dns proxy = no
[backup]
path = /media/Backup
valid users = @securedgroup
browsable =yes
guest ok = no
writable = yes
read only = no
UBUNTU SIDE
- My ext4 software raid array is mounted on /media/Backup.
- My main user belongs to the "securedgroup" group.
- I have added my main user to the smb user list and set a smb password.
- /media/Backup is set to home:securedgroup and is drwxr-xr-x
- After every change I make sure to restart the smb service.
Here is the output of "testparm":
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)
Processing section "[backup]"
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions
[global]
server string = Samba Server %v
map to guest = Bad User
name resolve order = bcast, host
dns proxy = No
idmap config * : backend = tdb
[backup]
path = /media/Backup
valid users = @securedgroup
read only = No
WINDOWS SIDE
- I can see my server on the network from Windows.
- I can not connect to it no matter what I try logging in with, which should just be my smb username and password.
- I'm not sure what my settings where at the time, but at one point I was getting "Access Denied" instead of invalid username/password.
- At another point, I was actually seeing the Backup directory but couldn't log into it, same as now (only now it has me logging into the Ubuntu server)
Fun fact: It was working under a guest account, but I wanted to secure it. Since then, I haven't been able to access it... Silly me.
I've tinkered around with various samba options, such as wins support, but still have had no luck.
So far, not impressed with samba.