Tip of the Day
Samba Server can be a real bastard to get working sometimes.
If you ever get the error ‘getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected’ try:
smbpasswd -a nobody
then hit Enter twice (for a blank password). It just worked for me, after about an hour’s reinstallation and Google searching. Why can’t error messages be less unfriendly :’(
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December 26th, 2003 at 12:39 pm
Thanks, I hope this will help
Searched long and hard for a solution.
Jeroen
BTW little typo: smbpasswd instead of smdpasswd in:
smbpasswd -a nobody
December 27th, 2003 at 1:52 pm
Hi Jeroen,
Hope this all works for you. When Samba wasn’t working it took *ages* for me to find a solution so I hope this has helped you solve your problem.
Thanks for spotting typo too, I’ve corrected it
October 3rd, 2005 at 1:06 pm
This should be in samba faq! By using google, there are lot of people with same problem..