Samba and Users Not Working on Redhat 7.2

[htmlmasterdave]

I've having some problems with samba on redhat 7.2... usernames used by windows pc's don't seem to work even though i think i setup the users correctly... does anyone know how to check what users are setup? also... i can't seem to get adduser to work properly... can someone give me an example of creating a user with a password belonging to the root group? TIA

 

[htmlmasterdave]

hey, i want answers... and i want them now :|

 

[n0cmonkey]

there should be some kind of samba users file somewhere in your system. Check the man pages to see if you used the samba adduser thingy to correctly set it up.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

ok, thanks, will do i should have thought of that first... oh well

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< ok, thanks, will do i should have thought of that first... oh well >>



I didnt pay attention to the manpages at first, so I got a little frustrated with it myself. But after going over the documentation it helped a lot. You can also post your smb.conf file and we can look over that with you.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

Thanks I'm trying to write up a chem lab right now, but maybe tomorrow i'll actually have time to try and fix this stuff

 

[Charles]

Question: Do I need to install Samba client on my Windows machine to enable networking with my Red Hat 7.2 machine?

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< Question: Do I need to install Samba client on my Windows machine to enable networking with my Red Hat 7.2 machine? >>



You need networking in Windows if thats what you mean.

 

[Charles]

<< You need networking in Windows if thats what you mean. >>

That's it? Is there any step by step tutorial? I use Red Hat 7.2 and Windows XP Pro.

 

[Nothinman]

For a user to work in Samba you have to create a SMB encrypted password for them with 'smbpasswd -a username'.

That's it?

Yea, Samba is a SMB server which is what Windows uses natively. The whole point is you don't need any Windows client software.

 

[FUBAR]

Another route you may have taken is to add the users to the linux box then try and map the windows users to the linux users. The command there should be

smbuseradd (or smbadduser) unixid:winid