now for another adventure, swat is an excellent way of setting up samba. on debian you need the package "swat". then browse to http://linuxipaddress:901 (thats port 901).
the biggest trap is encrypted passwords. by default all windows versions from about 98 onwards encrypt their passwords. standard linux authentication via /etc/passwd cannot cope, so samba runs a separate authentication scheme using smbpasswd. to add a user to that smbpasswd database, do this as root: smbpasswd -a patrick you will be prompted for a password. it can be the same as your linux password, and must be the same as the password you log into windows with. On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:56:29 +1300 Patrick Dunford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I then plugged the main Windows box back into the Linux box,. and > behold, both of them can ping each other. > > Still can't browse anything on the Linux server but I assume that is a > Samba issue and my friendlt local Samba man will know. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
