On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:17:28PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > I'm trying to share directories through samba. I have the workgroup and > server set correctly, because I can see the server in the network > neighborhood on the win98 client. But it will not allow access. I used > to change the windoze box to use plain text passwords...but since > linuxtopia no longer exists, I can't get to the learnto that said how > to do that. > I'm going from the smb.conf in an install of 2.2.1a-6, with these > modifications: > [homes] > comment = Home Directories > browseable = yes > read only = no > create mask = 0755 > directory mask = 0755 > > [oggs] > comment = oggs on magneto > writable = no > locking = no > path = /usr/local/oggs > public = yes > > Does anyone have any idea how I can get these shared? The first one > isn't much of a big deal to me, but sharing the oggs is.
If you want to use plain text passwords then nab Ptxt_on which in on the W98 cd. It is just a registry hack so you can find the hack on the web if you can't find the file. Otherwise set up encrypted passwords. Read "man smbpasswd" basically in /etc/samba run - # smbpasswd -a username Login on the windows side with the same user and password as you created with smbpasswd. Oh and change your smb.conf [global] security = user encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /usr/samba/smbpasswd That is the quick and nasty. Haven't done it for a while so I hope I didn't forget something. You should have the samba book on your system. Look for using_samba/ch06_04.html. Lays it all out for you. The book is on-line also. I'm getting kind of bleary eyed so I'm going to stop:) hth, kent
