On Friday 26 Sep 2003 4:22 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: > At 03:27 AM 9/26/2003, Derek Jennings said something remarkably > like (but > > somehow subtly different from): > >To get Samba working all you need to do is set the Workgroup name > > in the config file. > >You can do that by GUI simply by installing the drakwizard RPM > > using your Mandrake Software Manager. Restart Mandrake control > > Centre and there will be a new 'server' category. Go through the > > Samba Wizard. > > > >At the end of the wizard it tells you to open a terminal. Enter > > 'su' to become > >root and then for each user of your system enter > > > >smbpasswd -a user_name > > > >The user_name must exist in both Linux and Windows. > >The password given is the **WIndows** password for that user. It > > does not have > >to be the same as the Linux password. > > > >Afterwards users will be able to access theit /home folders from a > > Windows computer. > > Thank you. I think I got this working right, but I am getting > errors from my Windows machines. I suspect the problem is now on > the Windows side.
What kind of errors? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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