Re: [CentOS] More Samba Questions

2008-10-10 Thread Bo Lynch
On Thu, October 9, 2008 4:18 pm, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I have never setup a Samba server, and the recent thread here prompted to > get on this I need to migrate two XP machines from using iSCSI to Samba. > > I thought the "+" preceding a username in the smb.conf file for a > share definition t

RE: [CentOS] More Samba Questions

2008-10-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>you know individual Windows DOMAIN\usernames can be added to the local >Administrators group on a workstation? yeah, but like I said, I didn't want a logged in user (can't even enable a locked screen saver) to be accessible by "someone". I could create perms denying this user explicitly etc but

Re: [CentOS] More Samba Questions

2008-10-09 Thread John R Pierce
Joseph L. Casale wrote: I've always had to use smbpasswd -a unixusername then give them a password for smb use... the catch-22 is that SMB uses a completely different password hash algorithm than Unix/Linux /etc/passwd(shadow) passwords, so you can't use the one for the other. Its much mu

RE: [CentOS] More Samba Questions

2008-10-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I've always had to use > >smbpasswd -a unixusername > >then give them a password for smb use... the catch-22 is that SMB uses >a completely different password hash algorithm than Unix/Linux >/etc/passwd(shadow) passwords, so you can't use the one for the other. > >Its much much easier if you

RE: [CentOS] More Samba Questions

2008-10-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Why would you put user names in the smb.conf file? The server is set to "user" hence the need to suggest what user's can access the share, right? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] More Samba Questions

2008-10-09 Thread John R Pierce
Joseph L. Casale wrote: I have never setup a Samba server, and the recent thread here prompted to get on this I need to migrate two XP machines from using iSCSI to Samba. I thought the "+" preceding a username in the smb.conf file for a share definition told Samba to use the unix username? Unles

Re: [CentOS] More Samba Questions

2008-10-09 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >I have never setup a Samba server, and the recent thread here prompted to >get on this I need to migrate two XP machines from using iSCSI to Samba. > >I thought the "+" preceding a username in the smb.conf file for a >share definition told Samba to use

[CentOS] More Samba Questions

2008-10-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have never setup a Samba server, and the recent thread here prompted to get on this I need to migrate two XP machines from using iSCSI to Samba. I thought the "+" preceding a username in the smb.conf file for a share definition told Samba to use the unix username? Unless I actually use swat to c