On Thursday 01 June 2006 17:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi to one and all, > Could some kind people explain how i can set up passwords on a Suse10.0 box > acting as a server? > Samba is sharing the filesystems but requires some password to access the > data. > If i log on as fred with a password frenonserver1, should i be able to > login. I can login and pickup e-mail but that is about all. > Clicking the devices icon on Mandriva 2006.0 shows the samba system. > clicking on samba shares, opens the server shared files, but i need a > password to go further. > Neither the root or user login password works. I cannot find anywhere in > the Yast system to create samba users. > > I am the only user on the system and only one set of passwords,user names > is used. > Any help will be greatfully received. Gerald use yast -> network services -> samba services Setup public shares so you need no passwd to access them
/home/bla is automatically passworded to your user's passwd IF you are accessing 'network neighbourhood' from winders you will need to set smbpasswd as root: smbpasswd -a joesoap to access your desktop James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
