Re: Problems with samba
At 08:18 AM 2/19/2004, Brian Brazil wrote:
Try smbpasswd -a username password
Samba sans ldap needs a seperate password file unless the Windows stsyems
are set up to use plain text passwords.
Depending on the windows os it gets much worse than that. In my limited
experience I installed samba servers on rh9 and fbsd 4.8 servers and
established shares on my windows xp workstation. Also got shares working on
my wife's w98 workstation though not completely for reasons I don't understand.
My point is this. I was cautioned that the id/pw windows will use when
connecting to the share is the id/pw of the windows user. This advice
allowed me to get past where you're at now and actually get the shares
working, at least on win xp. But to do so I had to create id's on the unix
boxes running samba with the same pw as my id/pw on windows. And encrypt
them as Brian mentions.
It's really a pain and I'm very new to it, the only thing I'd like to add
is that if you're using windows as your workstation as I do then it is in
the end worth it.
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