Getting a Simple Samba Setup Running
Samba can be very complex, so it's important to get the simplest possible implementation of Samba running before making major configuration changes.
Caution
I experienced a rare intermittent problem with Samba in which neither Linux nor Windows clients could connect to the server. The Linux clients reported the following error:
error connecting to 192.168.100.3:139 (Connection refused) Connection to mydesk failed
After placing the following two lines in the [global] section of my smb.conf and restarting Samba, the symptom disappeared:
netbios name=mydesk encrypt passwords=yes
Surprisingly, removing those lines and restarting Samba again did not resurrect the symptom, so with no current way to reproduce ...
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