On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:07:23PM +1200, Jason Greenwood wrote: > I have been banging my head against the wall trying to get samba to work > on my work lan - to no avail. I've RTFM and attended the ostc class on > it. It still won't go.
I didn't see any bruises on Jason's head (but there were a few holes in the wall?) but his samba is now working. Having reinstalled previously, any link between creating users and creating _samba_ users had been broken, so it was a straightforward matter of fixing a couple of enthuiastic edits to smb.conf, and running smbpasswd -a to add new users. Samba's authentication is separate from mandrake's linux, by default. This is probably a good thing :-) but it isn't obvious if you haven't come across it before. -jim
