Samba Server

[Patrician]

I'm setting up Samba Server on my Red Hat machine in order to netowork it with my network. Everything seems to work fine except that I can't log in to the computer from the network. It brings up the logon box in windows and I type in the password for the user that I assigned to Samba in the smb.conf file and it wont accept the password.

Can anyone help me.

Peter

 

[Chatterjee]

hey,

did you first administer the smbpasswd command in linux to set up a samba user

go to the console and type

smbpasswd -a username

it'll let you enter a password

Post what you get.

-S

 

[Patrician]

I did what you said:
smbpasswd -a smbguest
and it asked me for a password and everything. Then I restarted Samba and went and tried it and it still says it is the wrong password.

Peter

 

[Damaged]

The username that you use on your Windows box has to be the same as the username for SAMBA.

If that doens't work then get rid of the encrypted passwords.

 

[Patrician]

I'm using Windows 98 on this end and when I go to connect it doesen't give me a choice for a name. Plus i'm not using encrypted passwords.

Peter

 

[Damaged]

By default Windows encrypts passwords in it's own fscked up little way. There used to be reghacs in the /usr/docs/samba directory to make those plain text, but I though SAMBA would recognize the Windows encrypted ones now.

Right, windows sends your username by default, doesn't give you a choice. I understand that. Make an smb user with the same name as you use on your Windows box is what I'm saying.

 

[Patrician]

That method worked perfect. I just made a user with the same user name as my 98 machine and set it's smb password and it worked fine.

Thanks alot.

Peter

 

[Damaged]

No problem. 🙂