Cannot access Samba share on Proxmox host

[macamba]

First of all my complements for this great peace of work. I was previously using Ubuntu 10.04 Server with KVM and tested Convirt 2.0 and OpenQRM on it. I takes a long way to get both of those working and OpenQRM installs a lot of services which slowed down my system. So far Proxmox does the job great. I only had to switch from Ubuntu to Debian :-(...

The first minor challenge I had so far with Proxmox directly after installation is that I had to put a rootdelay=90 in Grub config. Hence, I installed the complete system on an USB stick so probably the lack of speed of the USB stick is the cause.

Additionaly on the Debian host of Proxmox I installed cryptsetup, for accessing my encrypted harddisks, and Samba server. Since I want to use the host as a file server rather than a VM. Meanwhile Samba service is running and I also configured my shares in smb.conf. Now I have the problem that I can see my shares through the network but it doesn't allow me to access them via the Proxmox root user? Somebody had the same experience and knows a solution for me?

Feature request: cryptsetup, dm-crypt, LUKS as partitions for Proxmox

 

[tom]

Samba packages on lenny are quite old, I suggest you use the samba packages from lenny-backports.

 

[macamba]

I am newbie to Debian so to update via lenny-backports is easier said than done for me.
How do I invoke a package via backports including dependencies?

 

[macamba]

I logged in to the host shell with the root account and issued the command 'smbpasswd' which prompted me for a new password. So actually I added my root user now to the Samba user store. My shares work now!

I only wonder why I have to enter a new password why doesn't it just use the one of the OS root account, so that they stay synchronized. I think that's how it works under Ubuntu. I never added a user specifically via smbpasswd...

 

[udo]

I logged in to the host shell with the root account and issued the command 'smbpasswd' which prompted me for a new password. So actually I added my root user now to the Samba user store. My shares work now!

I only wonder why I have to enter a new password why doesn't it just use the one of the OS root account, so that they stay synchronized. I think that's how it works under Ubuntu. I never added a user specifically via smbpasswd...

Hi,
samba use an own password-store, which is not compatible with the linux one. This is a must have, because, windows can't use "normal" password-hashes.
If you install samba on ubuntu later, you must also add the samba-account.

Udo