Re: Samba Serving
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:17:28PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote:
> I'm trying to share directories through samba. I have the workgroup and
> server set correctly, because I can see the server in the network
> neighborhood on the win98 client. But it will not allow access. I used
> to change the windoze box to use plain text passwords...but since
> linuxtopia no longer exists, I can't get to the learnto that said how
> to do that.
> I'm going from the smb.conf in an install of 2.2.1a-6, with these
> modifications:
> [homes]
> comment = Home Directories
> browseable = yes
> read only = no
> create mask = 0755
> directory mask = 0755
>
> [oggs]
> comment = oggs on magneto
> writable = no
> locking = no
> path = /usr/local/oggs
> public = yes
>
> Does anyone have any idea how I can get these shared? The first one
> isn't much of a big deal to me, but sharing the oggs is.
If you want to use plain text passwords then nab Ptxt_on which in on the
W98 cd. It is just a registry hack so you can find the hack on the web
if you can't find the file.
Otherwise set up encrypted passwords. Read "man smbpasswd" basically in
/etc/samba run -
# smbpasswd -a username
Login on the windows side with the same user and password as you created
with smbpasswd.
Oh and change your smb.conf
[global]
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /usr/samba/smbpasswd
That is the quick and nasty. Haven't done it for a while so I hope I
didn't forget something. You should have the samba book on your system.
Look for using_samba/ch06_04.html. Lays it all out for you. The book
is on-line also. I'm getting kind of bleary eyed so I'm going to stop:)
hth,
kent
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