On Saturday 15 December 2001 21:10, you wrote: > On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 19:44:45 -0600 > > Julian Opificius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > > I'm a little worried, as I said before, about the users mdw1982 and the > > alexhome in the valid users list in the above definition. It would be > > better if, until you got all this working, you didn't have account names > > the same as machine names. I don't know if it's a problem, but it might > > be better to simplify things till you're sure it's OK to do that. Try > > taking out mdw1982 and alexhome account names. > > Also, I'd take out the "write list = ". The fact that the key word is > > there but has no arguments will probably make the share essentially > > read-only. > > ok...I've redone the entire configuration. I'm beginning to think that > there's something really simple that I'm overlooking cause when I attempt > to map a drive in Network Neighborhood I get as far as making the > connection where it asks for the password, but I'm not sure which password > it's asking for cause I give it the password of the user thats trying to > connect, > > user = markw > passwd = casey81 > > 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. Mark it just came to me that you are trying to look at a share from a windows machine on the linux server machine? If that is the case then the windows machine wants a file or folder marked shared and it will show a hand palm up under the icon in "my computer" . If you shared a file or drive or whatever in windows, then when you set it up to be shared , you had to right click to go to properties and then click on "shared". In the box that pops up it asks for a user name and a password, if you put a password in that is the one it wants in linneighborhood, if you put no password in then that is what it wants. In other words in the linux linneighborhood when it asks for the user and password give it the user name for the windows share and do not enter a password, just click on OK, unless you did give it a password when setting up the shared file and in that case that is the password to use, You can go back in to the windows share process and change the password if need be . I hope this is understandable as I have typed it. If not come back to the list and I will try again. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
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