Re: samba

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jens.jorgensen@tallan.com>]

You need to add your user on the potato box to the smbpasswd file if it isn't there.
As root, say:

grep <myusername> /etc/samba/smbpasswd

If your user isn't in there, then run:

smbpasswd -a <myusername>

If it is in there you can just run as yourself, the user whose home directory you wish
to access:

smbpasswd

The reason you have to give your password again is that like unix and Lan Manager
(Windows Networking, whatever you want to call it) use different hashing algorithms
for passwords.

"Timothy C. Phan" wrote:

> hi,
>
>   I have just install samba on my potato box. Is there
>   an addition setup that I need to do to browse my home
>   directory on the potato box?
>
>   Here is the sample setup:
>
>   On potato box:
>     user login: usera
>     passwrd   : passwda
>     home dir  : /home/usera
>
>   On NT box: I also have the same use and same password.
>
>   Now, from the NT box, I'd like to map this home directory
>   on the potato to a drive where I can read/write file.
>
>   Anything in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file need to be modified
>   to do this?  Currently, everytime I click on the workgroup
>   on the NT explore, it kept asking me for a user/passwd and
>   I kept getting invalid user/passwd.
>
>   Thanks
>
> ---
> tcp

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Jens B. Jorgensen
jens.jorgensen@tallan.com