samba access denied

Hi, there,

I have a fresh intallation of Fedora 4. I have set up the samba.

I could not access the samba share on a linux box from a PC box and got
the error message of wrong user or password at the pc box. I checked the
message log relating to samba on the linux box, as follows:


Nov 8 00:01:37 hornsby smbd[8680]: [2005/11/08 00:01:37, 0]
passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:startsmbfilepwent(279)

Nov 8 00:01:37 hornsby smbd[8680]: startsmbfilepwent_internal: failed
to set 0600 permissions on password file /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Error was
Permission denied

Nov 8 00:01:37 hornsby smbd[8680]: .Unable to open passdb database.

Nov 8 00:01:37 hornsby smbd[8680]: [2005/11/08 00:01:37, 0]
passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:startsmbfilepwent(204)

Nov 8 00:01:37 hornsby smbd[8680]: startsmbfilepwent_internal: unable
to open file /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Error was: Permission denied

Nov 8 00:01:37 hornsby smbd[8680]: [2005/11/08 00:01:37, 0]
passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:add_smbfilepwd_entry(606)

Nov 8 00:01:37 hornsby smbd[8680]: add_smbfilepwd_entry: unable to
open file.


I have checked the /etc/samba/smbpasswd file:

-rw------- 1 root root 214 Nov 4 10:42 smbpasswd

which is by default.

By the way, the samba users have been created by converting unix users,
using Webmin.

(I did the same thing for previous installations of redhat linux and had
no problems at all.)