> -----Original Message----- > From: Olwe Melwasul [mailto:olwe at cpinternet.com] > Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 10:15 PM > To: TCLUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Samba newbie probs > > > [global] > *snip* > # You may wish to use password encryption. Please read > # ENCRYPTION.txt, Win95.txt and WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation. > # Do not enable this option unless you have read those documents > ; encrypt passwords = yes > ; smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd uncomment "encrypt passwords" and "smb passwd file". This is almost certainly the root of your problem. I also suspect that you have not yet created samba users by running smbpasswd. > > # The following are needed to allow password changing from Windows to > # update the Linux system password also. > # NOTE: Use these with 'encrypt passwords' and 'smb passwd > file' above. > # NOTE2: You do NOT need these to allow workstations to change only > # the encrypted SMB passwords. They allow the Unix password > # to be kept in sync with the SMB password. > ; unix password sync = Yes > ; passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u > ; passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password* > %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* might want to uncomment the above as well. Though it is not necessary to get things working. > > # Unix users can map to different SMB User names > ; username map = /etc/samba/smbusers > This is a handy option for mapping windows usernames to unix accounts. *snip* > > # Browser Control Options: > # set local master to no if you don't want Samba to become a master > # browser on your network. Otherwise the normal election rules apply > ; local master = no uncomment and set to yes to let Samba become the master browser (this means that it will be hold the list of windows boxen connected to your network) *snip* > #============================ Share Definitions > ============================== > idmap uid = 16777216-33554431 > idmap gid = 16777216-33554431 > template shell = /bin/false > password server = None > encrypt passwords = no > guest ok = yes > guest account = olwe > security = SHARE > winbind use default domain = no I am not sure what this ^^^ stuff is, but I would comment it out. *snip* > > > [olwe] > path = /home/olwe > writeable = yes > guest ok = yes > make those changes and restart samba. --- Loren H. Burlingame <loren at lorenburlingame.com> GPG Key ID: 0x3EA9CF8F "Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." -William Shatner (a.k.a. Buck Murdock) _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list