KThorpe wrote:
> I've just installed a copy of Windows NotTested 4.0. For some reason
> it can't see my samba box unlike all my Win95 systems. I'm suspecting
> the Samba end as I see the following messages in /var/log/samba/log.smb
> when I try to browse.
Hi Kevin!
In the docs to samba (on my box in /usr/doc/packages/samba) you can find
useful infos which could help you fixing your problem. Probably it´s about
the password encryption. You should apply the registry patch you find there
to your NotTested box, that solved my problems.
That registry patch enables use of plain-text passwords over your local net (which NT won't do by default). This is a little scary if your local net is directly connected to the Internet (e.g., via a cable modem with no firewall). It *should* be easy also to convert Samba to using encrypted passwords:
FIRST MAKE A COPY OF /etc/smb.conf IN CASE YOU NEED TO BACK OUT.
In /etc/smb.conf, you first have, in your [global] section,
- smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
- null passwords = yes
- update encrypted = yes
- encrypt passwords = no
- null passwords = yes
cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh > /etc/smbpasswd
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbpasswd -n username
mksmbpasswd.sh is in the Samba distribution (you can use locate to find it).
The -n removes the password for username in /etc/smbpasswd.
username is of course the user Windows NT claims to be when accessing shares.
(You must be using "security=user", of course, but you are probably doing that already.)
After you have accessed a Samba share from NT (which causes your NT-encrypted password to be stored by Samba in /etc/smbpasswd), change the above to
- smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
- encrypt passwords = yes
- encrypt passwords = yes
I'm no expert on Samba, and there might be an unnecessary step or two above, but the above procedure worked for me.
jos
