>> and it doesn't like that one. i've even tried the Linux box's root passwd >> and _that_ doens't work either. >> >> the weird thing that got me going this direction was I opened the config >> file and commented out ALL of the global settings cause i wanted to see how >> things would react, then attempted to connect from the windows machine in a >> terminal. low and behold it asked for a password. But neither my son nor >> myself knew which one it was asking for. >> >> I'm going to take your advice and get rid of the other two users that >> mirror machine names. they're confusing the hell outa me. >> >> O, and BTW... I LOVE british humor. the dryer the better sometimes. >Hi, I believe the password it is looking for is one set in the control >panel>passwords It want's a change password and that is where you put in the >user password for the login. It must be the same, as I understand it as the >one you want to access through in samba. Not an expert but fumbling with >these issues also.
Guys, Samba (when you connect via network neighborhood in windows) is expecting the password for the password associated with the login you used for windows. There are few things that might happen depending on what exactly your situation is: 1. The password for the windows username and the linux username are different, thus it is asking for the password currently set for the linux username. 2. The windows username that you logged into windows with is not a valid linux username (and is not mapped to a linux username via /etc/samba/smbusers), in which case it will either ask for a password, or in the case of windows 2000, will ask for a valid linux username / password combination. 3. The username is not a 'valid user' for the share you are trying to access, and thus it will prompt for either a password (Win 95/98) or a username / password combination (Win NT / 2000). To make things easier, you can set up your linux box as a domain controller and therefore will only have to deal with username / passwords on the linux side. If you want to pursue that, let me know. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
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