Re: samba problem

[Michael Heldebrant <hmike@portalofevil.com>]

On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 09:14, Mirek Dobsicek wrote:
> Hi,
>  on my Woody box I'm running Samba 2.2.2
> when I set security = share in smb.conf, all Windows desktops around
> can easily find this server a connect.
> If I set security = user (this is my prefered setting) then Windows desktops
> cant even neither find this server nor connect.
> Only when I use nbtstat -a my_linuz_machine, then the server is reached
> and some info printed. But windows explorer refuses find my linuz server.
> 
>       What's wrong? :-(          Mirek Dobsicek

Does each user have a login on the linux server?  Furthermore, does each
user have a listing in the smbpasswd file?  smbpasswd -a username will
initialize each user that you want to be able to access with security =
user.  It's worked great for me with both win95/98 and NT clients like
this.

--mike