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   John Karns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Bob Latham said:

> Presumeably the smb daemon is running on your server.

service smb restart - works fine as far as I can tell. Does that answer
the question?

> It helps to use the same pw on the MSW side as the samba side (yields an
> auto-login to samba), but it's not necessary, as samba will prompt for
> the pw if needed.

Tried this, created a user and password on the linux box that matched that
already in use on the PC but still no better.

> Samba keeps it's own pw file called smbpasswd.  Each user who wants
> samba access must have an entry in that file.  Depending on what smb
> version you're using, it may be a multi-step process.  The process was a
> bit awkward with older smb versions, as it was necessary to manually add
> the user entry in the smbpasswd file. 

I know this sounds a bit vague but last week I read somewhere (can't
remember where) that I needed to type a line of geek speak into the
command line in order to create the smbpasswd file. I did this and the
file was created. I thought that was it.  

> With current versions, one simply
> needs to run the utility smbadduser.  It will prompt for the user name
> and pw.

Hmm, just had a stab at this. It appears to want 2 IDs separated by a ":"
and then a password. I've no idea why it need 2 IDs. I took a guess and
made them both the same ie. smbadduser user1:user1 and when asked password
= dogslife. Needless to say, it's made no difference. Still can't connect.

> > Someone sent me a W98 registry hack to make w98 use none encrypted
> > just as an experiment. That didn't connect either. Anyone know of an
> > anti-hack to put it back to the same as the others?

> You will probably have to run regedit on the MSW machine to change it
> back, I believe. 

Sounds about right to me.

> See the samba docs for more info; it is pretty well
> covered there.  Look for a file called passwords.text

As I say, I am very new to this. Where on the planet would I look for such
a document - not having any clue you understand.

Thanks for trying to help.

Cheers,

Bob.



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