I've always had to create a seperate set of accts and passwords using: smbadduser unix-id:samba-id
usually sborg:sborg I think is then prompts you for a password. You can later set the password using smbpasswd. Rgds, Stephan On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 14:33, Michael Kraus wrote: > G'day all... > > I've set up samba for an NPO, and am having some difficulties. > > How do I get the samba passwords to be generated from the users passwords on > the local machine? > > Users on the windows machines can open some files, but they open as > read-only by their applications. (Not all of them, but a number. They are > not marked as read only in the directory. Have read, write and execute > permissions in the linux directory.) > > This is quite urgent as the NPO cannot operate without this functionality. > > Any help greatly appreciated. > > All the best. > > Michael. > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- ��S -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
