IIRC, samba services (smbd, nmbd) required a restart after adding users, changes in security. I'm not current on recent implementations of samba, so YMMV.
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G'day all! > > I've recently inherited control of a UNIX box running AIX 5.2 and have > discovered a couple of disturbing things. Samba is setup and running and had > a few shares wide open to the internal network (yes, people could have > deleted our entire POS system!). I have removed those shares and now am > trying to setup shares that have security on them and are accessible from a > Windows XP box. I've used examples to try and setup the share and have set > "valid users" to my ID and it will prompt me for a username and password but > does not accept it. > > > > I know very little about UNIX so must be missing something somewhere. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Cheers! > > Cameron > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
