Samba problems - phantom share

[paul1149]

I'm having a hard time getting Win7 to access LL's passworded Samba shares. I understand this is a very common problem, and it seems the only solution is a group policy hack available only in Pro level Windows editions. Too bad for such an important function.


I will keep on working on that, but there is another problem I'm having at the moment.


I have configured smb.conf with five of my own shares, and deleted the stock LinuxLiteShare. I also changed the netbios name of my machine to precision, from Lappy. Neither of the two older names exists in the smb.conf file any longer.


And yet upon booting it up today, a Win7 machine not only saw my new shares under Precision, it saw the LinuxLiteShare under Lappy. There must be another source that Samba is reading from? Any insight would be appreciated.


Paul

[torreydale]

If you haven't already, it might be good to look at the following to see if a step was missed:
https://www.freecinema2022.gq/manual/network.html#shares

[paul1149]

Wow. I ran the sudo leafpad smbusers command, and found this:

<linux> = "<linux>"paul = paul


I don't know how that got mangled, as I had been using the Samba configuration tool to deal with users, but I added a line feed, to make:



<linux> = "<linux>"
paul = paul


And instantly I have Win7 access to the Samba shares. I suppose I should delete the "linux" entry and add quotes and brackets to my name, as per the manual.


I tested this on a second Win7 machine, On both Win7's I have access but am still seeing the phantom Samba machine and its share.


Thanks very much, torreydale!!

[Valtam]

Help Manual and torreydale to the rescue again Please mark as Solved.