Problem connecting through Samba

[qtaro]

Try it the whole night, couldn't get samba to work.

what I have:
1)Network's working, I can connect to shoutcast and listen to online radio
2)I can connect to my xp machine's share from another machine using the right username/password
3)disable Netbios over TCPIP
4)use IP address instead of hostname

still, when myps2 comes up, i don't see any samba share.

also, when myps2 boots up, the part about Samba connection changes way too quick, i wasn't able to see what's wrong with it. Screen capture can't get it either.

The ./log directory doesn't contain any log at all.

Anyone got it working?

[gibbo501]

If your Windows drive FAT formatted?

[qtaro]

If your Windows drive FAT formatted?

it's XP.. NTFS formatted.

[qtaro]

since i can't take a screenshot with my keyboard, i managed to take one with my camera..

now it says:

"parsed 0 shares from smb.xml"

what??

this is what I have in smb.xml

<shares>
<name>download</name>
<path>smb://user1asswd@192.168.1.8/download/</path>
</shares>

any thought?

[des2]

Just a thought looking at the original samba file, try this:

<shares>
<share>
<name>download</name>
<path>smb://user1asswd@192.168.1.8/download/</path>
</share>
</shares>

[qtaro]

That's IT!!! how can i mis-read the "s"..

thanks Des2!

[deathcock]

...my shares I've created in samba.xml appear in MyPS2, but, when I click on the shares it will hang for around 5 seconds or so but not allow me to access the shares.

Any thoughts?

[des2]

This was in the docs:

- If you are running Windows XP it can help to turn off the "NetBIOS over TCP/IP" setting under
"Local Area Network Properties" -> "Advanced" -> "WINS"

- Enter the IP address of your computer instead of its NetBIOS name in the samba.xml file.

- Create an lmhosts file with appropriate settings for your network and upload it
to mc0:lmhosts

- Make sure you can access your shares from other computers in the network.



My XP computer was on a domain so I did the following to make my setup work:

1) disabled the netbios over tcp
2) changed the workgroup in MyPS2 to reflect the XP computer name
3) double checked share as well as file permissions - ended up using local administrator account with password within samba.xml to make sure I had the necessary privs.
4) used the IP address instead of the XP computer name within the samba.xml

Hope this helps someone