Samba is doing a dance on me

From: Jack Hill, Just readin the News (sconews@nanniandjack.com)
Date: 04/20/03 

From: "Jack Hill, Just readin the News" <sconews@nanniandjack.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 21:19:08 GMT
To: scomsc@xenitec.on.ca

I am trying to solve a problem with a Caldera 3.1 Server running SAMBA 2.2.2...

Environment:
There is an internet connection via a NetOpia router which is getting a
dynamic IP from the ISP and using NAT to permit manager, jenny, and nicole
to access the internet for browsing and such... the gateway is internal
TCP/IP 192.168.1.1

1 SCO OpenServer5.0.5 machine named "sturman" TCP/IP address 192.168.1.253
- has NO route to gateway and hence no internet access nor visibility

1 RedHat6 machine running on a Dec Alpha platform named "infinity" TCP/IP
192.168.1.254 - has NO route to gateway and no internet access nor visibility

1 Caldera 3.1 Server named "earth" running on an HP 866MHz Pentium III
TCP/IP address 192.168.1.200 - has a route to the gateway and can send mail
out to mindspring.com (but since it's domain -- sturman.com -- is not
registered, most systems reject mail to it because they can not reverse
resolve the domain)

There are three users of "earth" system unix logins of:
     manager
     jenny
     nicole
each user is using a networked Windows 98SE PC with TCP/IP only, no NETBUI,
and can see the server...

What I am trying to do:
I am trying to set up, on the server, three home directories for each user
(manager, jenny, nicole) visible via SAMBA, and one shared directory
(lytec) that all three can get to and use...

The lytec directory will hold a medical pratice management system, with
multi-user license and associated data files -- this needs to be accessable
by all.. full read/write/everything

What happens:
Whenever a user attempts to access the server ("earth" shows up in the
Network Neighborhodd) it demands a password, and NOTHING works...

What I have tried:
I have tried to set up a very simple, totally promiscuous system which
should allow anyone to access just about everything on "earth" but this
password requirement gets in the way...

# Samba config file created for testing
# from localhost (127.0.0.1)
# Date 13 January 2003

# Global parameters
[global]
        workgroup = STURMAN
        Hosts allow=192.168.1. 127.
        encrypt passwords = yes
[lytec]
        comment = Lytec Medical System Data
        path = /home/DATA2/lytec
        read only = No
        public = Yes
        writable = Yes
        guest ok = Yes

Each time I have made a change, I have issued, as root, the command
kill -1 `cat smbd.pid` `cat nmbd.pid`
to force SAMBA to re-read the smb.conf file

The SAMBA files are in "/etc/samba.d" which is where the install placed
them, and I have run "smbpasswd -a {username}" for all users, including "root"

Using the GUI/KDE desktop and Konqueror, I am able to bring up "SWAT"
<http://localhost:901> BUT no password works for root or for admin so I can
not seem to use SWAT to administer things, which might make it easier...

I am frustrated, mostly because I should be able to figure this out with
all this whining...

I have the config files and loads of other data, but I am not sure what
I need to send, give, or whatever to get this thing off the blocks and
working...
Help? 

--
Jack Hill, Just readin' the news
sconews@nanniandjack.com

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