illusion writes: > I just managed to fix a similar problem myself. I could see the Samba > server from > the Windows machines, but couldn't browse the shares, although i thought > everything > was set up right. > I had to add encrypted password support for the Win98 boxen on the network. > Then I > added the following lines to smb.conf: > > encrypt passwords = yes > smbpasswd file = /path/to/smbpasswd > preferred master = yes > donain logons = yes > > Those lines basically turn the Samba server into the equivalent to an NT > domain > controller. I just had to set the windows networking to log into an NT > domain to > authenticate, and all works well now. I spent probably 8 hours this > afternoon > reading through the man page for smb.conf, the DOMAIN.txt that comes with > the source > tarball and countless daemon restarts before i figured this out. And it's > all for > the better because I don't have to put an NT server back up. > > Hope this helps....
Exist a method to create smbpasswd from the unix passwd file? Is it posible to have problems if the passwords are case mixed? (the clients are mainly Win95 boxes). -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Dan N. Pomohaci | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Lecturer - Faculty of Biotechnology | | | University of Agricultural Sciences | | | 59 Marasti Ave, code 71331, | tel: 40-1-2223700/324 | | Bucharest, Romania | fax: 40-1-22232693 | --------------------------------------------------------------------
