what have you done about windows passwords for the linux machine. you need to use smbpasswd to set up your encreypted windows passwords.
smbpasswd -a roger give it the same password as roger has on the windows machine. windows enforces encrypted passwords since win98. the encryption is different to the unix encryption in /etc/shadow, so you need to set up a separate password scheme roger does have to have a user account on the linux box too. On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:36:14 +1200 (NZST) Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And now for something completely different... > > With my notebook running suse I am connected to a workgroup with xp and 2000 > machines and am trying to configure samba server to allow access to shares > from a windows machine. I have been beaten by this stuff in the past but > will not give up this time around! I have had a look at swat previously but > this doesn't seem to be available on the suse cds so for now thought I'd go > with using the Samba Server utility in Yast and editing samba.conf. > > I have set up a share of the fat32 partition and a home directory, but not > quite getting the results I want. Firstly, I can only browse a share from > the windows machine with "guest ok = yes", as soon as this is "no" the share > isn't accessible with an "access denied" message. I want to be specifying > users who can access that share. Secondly alll files are read-only, even > though I have "read only = no" or "writeable = yes". The line "create mask > = 777" is my attempt to fix that, unsuccessfully. > > Time to ask for some help :-) > Here are a couple of sections from the samba.conf file: > [global] > workgroup = Workgroup > printing = cups > printcap name = cups > printcap cache time = 750 > cups options = raw > printer admin = @ntadmin, root, administrator > username map = /etc/samba/smbusers > map to guest = Bad User > logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile > logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile > logon drive = P: > security = user > encrypt passwords = yes > passdb backend = smbpasswd > server string = Samba Server > add machine script = > domain master = false > domain logons = no > local master = no > preferred master = auto > ldap suffix = dc=example,dc=com > > [notebook-d] > available = yes > browseable = yes > comment = Notebook's D Drive > guest ok = yes > path = /windows/E/ > create mask = 777 > printable = no > writeable = yes > > Roger -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
