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I'm probably doing something wrong. I installed the two pets as per the instructions. When I type samba-start in console, I get
"bash: samba-start: console not found"

When I run samba-login (after dragging to desktop) with default settings I get a dialogue box saying "no connection to pupshare"

On the plus side Pnethood now shows a tab for pupserver, but does not show a drive. It still sees the Windows machine and allows me to connect to the drive there.

Where to next?

Thanks.

Where did you type "samba-start"? You have an icon on your desktop that opens a window for typing commands. You can check that Samba is running with the "ps" command.

Also, does your Puppy setup have a /mnt/home folder? You can tell with the command "ls /mnt/home".

Thanks again.

I used the console on the Puppy 5.2 desktop.
samba-start now does nothing.
is /mnt/home gives me "bash: is: command not found"

but I checked and there is a /mnt/home folder.

ps command shows several services in usr/local/samba/sbin loaded.

The "ls" command is typed with an "ell".

When you type the "ps" command, you should see ten processes running, starting with nmbd and ending with smbd.

It sounds like the server is running. Go to a client machine and see if you can connect to it.

Sorry, I used "is". Ls does show the content of the folder. The 10 programs are running on Puppy.

From the XP machine, Network Places does see the Puppy but there are no shared drives, so cannot log onto them.

Couple of question where we might be better able to zero-in on your problem.

• Which SAMBA did you install? (How did you get SAMBA on your system)
• Which Puppy are you using? (Several recent Puppies changed fs structure and rules and it looks like you are using Puppy 5.2)

Should be snap to help you after this.

You are very kind.

I think Samba came with the the distro though I don't know what version. The Puppy is 5.2. How can I find the version of Samba?

Why isn't there a GUI for this?

Go back to the Samba-TNG tutorial and follow the instructions for making a desktop shortcut.

ie. Right click on the desktop - New - Shortcut - \\pupserver

autumnleaves wrote:I think Samba came with the distro though I don't know what version.

I installed the two pets as per the instructions.

Now I'm confused as to what you are running.

When I create the windows shortcut I am told that the file \\pupserver cannot be found.

I installed the two samba-tng pets as per the tutorial. However I do not know what was installed with the distro. You think you're confused...?

Do you have firewalls running on either your Puppy or Windows machine that might be blocking access to the server?

Ahahh! After turning off firewalls I was able to connect to \\pupserver using root/woofwoof. Thank you.

Is it now possible to add other shared drives and remove the username/password requirement?

autumnleaves wrote:Ahahh! After turning off firewalls I was able to connect to \\pupserver using root/woofwoof. Thank you.

Excellent!

Is it now possible to add other shared drives and remove the username/password requirement?

That's what the tutorial is for.

I can almost guarantee that it won't work for me.
E.g., I uncommented map to guest in the conf file, stopped and restarted samba, but a username/password are still required when connecting from the Windows machine.

That's because your current "pupshare" share does not have "guest" access. Add the following line to its smb.conf entry.

No luck. Now Samba-login does not work on the puppy machine, and from the Windows machine I am told that pupshare on pupserver (or pupserver on pupshare) is not accessible.

Here is the conf file:

[global]
dns proxy = no
max log size = 50
domain master = no
domain logons = no
workgroup = pupshare
netbios name = pupserver
server string = Puppy Samba-TNG Server
security = user
map to guest = Bad Password
;printcap name = cups
load printers = yes

[pupshare]
path = /mnt/home
writable = yes
guest ok = yes

[printers]
path = /tmp
printable = yes
guest ok = yes

Here is the rc.local file:
#version upgrade, any prior content of rc.local moved to /tmp/rc.local
pure-ftpd -zMbBADHk 90 -e -U 022:022

if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall ]; then
/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall start
fi
sleep 20
samba-start