Beginner question on setting passwords
BRAD
bradhamilton at comcast.net
Fri Nov 25 04:57:40 GMT 2005
Dr Robert Young wrote:
> I can not easily read the docs on samba 2.2.8 (8/17/2005) since they
> are all HTML (I am working on a VT320 ). Can someone give me ( or point
> me to a description) the "step 1...step2 .... step 33) for setting
> usernames/passwords on samba? This is a one user system, and I simply
> need to transfer files occasionally to back them up to a second
> location. I have tried to read the HTML and get the feeling it has
> something to do with the smbpasswd command, but my eyes are starting to
> "cross" after staring at html with a text screen!!! PLEASE READ THIS
> IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING:
>
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
Hi,
Not sure if this is what you want, but:
smbpasswd -a <user> (to add a user)
smbpasswd -e <user> (to enable a user)
smbpasswd -h will give you a short list of relevant commands.
Hopefully, this will get you started in the right direction.
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