[NTLUG:Discuss] Configuring Samba Problems

[Dan Carlson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kipton Moravec" <kip at kdream.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 10:13 AM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Configuring Samba Problems


>
> I am pretty sure it is a problem with logging on from the
> windows box.  I set up a user with the same name and password on the
windows
> box as the Linux box.
>

Samba doesn't use the linux usernames and passwords.  It uses its own
private database, usually in /etc/smbpasswd or /etc/samba/smbpasswd.  Run
the smbpasswd program to manage the accounts in the smbpasswd file.
Everything is simpler and easier if you make your Windows, Linux, and Samba
account names and passwords all the same.

Another common access issue with Samba and Windows is password encryption.
Older versions of Windows (like 95 and original 98, I think) used
unencrypted passwords.  Newer versions of Windows (I think everything since
98SE) use encrypted passwords.  Samba must be configured to use one or the
other, and it has to match what your Windows clients are using.  If
necessary, you can change what the Windows clients are using by editing the
appropriate registry entry.  See the Samba HOWTOs or do a google search to
find the keys for different versions of Windows.  For Samba it is just a
setting in smb.conf.

Dan Carlson