[mythtv-users] OT: Samba help

[David Watkins]

2008/10/18 belcampo <belcampo at zonnet.nl>:
> Damian wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Sorry for the off topic post, but the answers I get to Linux questions
>> here are always so much better than anywhere else.
>>
>> I've been having Samba problems for a while but I now really need to get
>> it sorted. I want my MythBox to be the network server for the house as
>> the machine is always on. I have one Ubuntu laptop, on XP machine and
>> one dual buut Ubuntu/XP laptop that I want to connect to it.
>>
>> I've followed all of the tutorials that I can find on the net and they
>> always sound so easy but I always come unstuck!
>>
>> I'm now in a position where I finally seem to be able to see all of the
>> shared directories from the different machines, but I assume I just
>> don't have the appropriate permissions to access them.
>>
>> Can anyone help me on this or point me to the right place.
>>
>> I somehow had this working for just my XP box, but folowing two other
>> tutorials seems to have broken that now so I really need to get things
>> working.
> I'm in no way an samba expert, but what I can think of youi probably
> missed is the following:
> user accounts from all machines need to be known on the backend.
> As root on your mythbackend smbpasswd -a ubuntulaptop etc
> restart samba

It also helps if your users and groups have the same ids across all machines.

That's the user Ids and Group IDs that are specified in /etc/passwd
and /etc/groups (or at least that's where they are in Fedora)