[OpenIndiana-discuss] Accessing smb shares from windows

Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com
Wed Sep 25 20:29:57 UTC 2013


Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> Maybe someone can offer a brief outline of how one is to access shares
>> on an OI machine from windows 7 based hosts?
>>
>> The share has sharesmb on and named but I'm not able to access it from
>> windows 7.  Entering the username and passwd of shares owner into the
>> dialog offered by windows 7 file explorer just fails with no helpful
>> comments. 
>>    zfs get sharesmb p1/projects/reader
>>   NAME                PROPERTY  VALUE         SOURCE
>>   p1/projects/reader  sharesmb  name=preader  local
>>
>> Nothing at all in the smb server log that is helpful. The last entries
>> there are from OS start up several days ago:
>>  /var/svc/log/network-smb-server:default.log
>>
>> Permissions on the directory (reader) I'm trying to access:
>> drwxr-sr-x 16 reader nfsu 17 2013-09-21 22:43 reader
>>
>> None of the other properties (besides sharesmb) as revealed by `get
>> all' appear to have any bearing on remote access.
>>
>> There is no chance at all that I'm just entering the uid passwd wrong.
>> They are simple and I use them everyday.
>
> A small edition is that I tried this command:
> /bin/chmod -R A=everyone@:full_set:fd:allow /projects
>
> But still no success.  Login from win7 fails

A little output from /var/adm/messages shows:
 Sep 25 16:24:00 oi smbsrv: [ID 138215 kern.notice] NOTICE: 
 smbd[OI\guest]: preader access denied: guest disabled

But I'm attempting a user access.

Also, if it matters I do have the same name user on win7




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