now for another adventure, swat is an excellent way of setting up samba.keep getting "connection refused" http://debian:901
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.
with hosts and lmhosts entry for 192.168.0.1 debian
smb.conf says password encryption is off.
checked in samba documentation, in Debian swat is disabled by default. Edit inetd.conf to enable swat. Kill inetd. Start inetd. Reload web page. Enter root and password. It works :)
At the moment in Network Neighourhod I can see the server but can't browse it (it asks for a password for IPC$).
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