[NTLUG:Discuss] Configuring Samba Problems

[Chris Cox]

Kipton Moravec wrote:
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> 
> When I double click on the printserver icon in Network Neighborhood a
> password window pops up which looks like it is trying to log into
> //printserver/ipc$ and asks for a password.   And as a result I am stuck.  I
> don't know what ipc$ is.  Is it a macro designation for the user name?  How
> do I make it the user I am logged in as?
> 
> I have tried turning off encrypted passwords, turning on encrypted passwords
> and a few other things.  Nothing seems to work.
> 

Read the samba documentation that comes with samba.

You need to use smbpasswd to establish "windows" account passwords
on your Linux host... there is documentation that will help
you with synchronization as well.  Or better, if you have
a domain controller present, authenticate all usernames/passwords
through it... thus avoiding the need for the extra database.