The reg hack is dirty,
configure smbpasswd so samba can talk encrypted passwords
to your windows machines.
This is simple, and allows you to disallow local access
(eg telnet, shh and whate have you) whilst maintaining
smb usage. Smbpasswd also allows clients to change their
passwords remotely.
Its all in the documents that come with samba, if you used
an rpm then the docs will be in /usr/docs/samba-<version>
(although i havent used rh7, they may have moved them to
/usr/local/docs)
if your using non-rhat like dist, um... find the docs some
how ;)
Dean
Michael De Santis wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I hoping someone out there can help resolve a small annoying problem
> with win2000 machines connecting to Samba.
>
> Have a linux server running samba in which all our office winX desktops
> connect to. This is running fine with all winX machines having the reg
> hack done so connecting to the server is not a problem.
>
> The problem lies when Win2000 desktops initially try to connect to the
> linux server. An error is received with an incorrect username and
> password message. It then prompts for an alternative username and
> password in which case a successful connection is established after the
> user enters his details.
>
> >From what I can gather is that the Win2000 initially tries to connect to
> Samba with the "machine name/username" combination. I believe Samba is
> set up so that it only the "username" of the client is used for
> authentication.
>
> Does anyone know a work around this problem?. Granted it's a small
> issue.. but not when each staff member complains about it each
> morning.
>
> regards
> Michael
>
>
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