I finally got Corwin (our linux server) working again. I had one account, mine, and two shares from that account. I added five more accounts, one for Mom and one for each of the kids. Mom needs hers so she can update her website. The kids will probably never use theirs. Finally I created SAMBA shares for each of the new accounts. Once I had done this, Corwin refused to talk to anybody.

The first problem is somehow the ethernet card became deactivated. I found the entry for the card and reactivated it. Once I did this, telnet started working again, but SAMBA refused to work. It was impossible even to open the "Corwin" icon, much less the seven shares. The problem is this. The shares had to be accessible to anybody because nobody around here pays much attention to their login id. Because the shares had different passwords, a single password can't open them all. Because Windows only asks for one password, the single password is wrong for at least one of the shares, so SAMBA refuses to allow the share list to be published. Setting all user passwords and all SAMBA passwords to the same thing allowed Dekard2 and Nixon to start talking again. Unfortunately ROY still wouldn't talk. I discovered that ROY was being signed on as "Peter M. Maurer" instead of "maurer." I logged out and logged back in as "maurer" and that started working. HOWEVER, the three computers could access only the two original shares! The new shares were inaccessible. That turned out to be an ownership problem. Because Windows allows only a single user name to be entered, that user name must be used for all shares. In other words, that user name must be the OWNER of all shares. (GRRRR) I made "maurer" the owner of everything, and finally everything started working.

I hate computers.

 

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