[clug] samba password

[Neil Pickford]

Thanks heaps for the hint's guy's.

After your hints I was able to solve my Samba access problem that has 
persisted for over 3 years.  In my case it was the lack of the line
"smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd" in smb.conf and a mix up over
which smb.conf was active.  In my case /etc/smb.conf was not being used 
by Samba 2.2.1, however it used to be used in earlier versions.
My smb.conf is located at /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf (the install 
directory)

Found a good article through google at:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Linux_Networking/Q_20087519.html
This helped too - It also explains the $IPC password question.

Neil Pickford
VK1KNP

Darren Freeman wrote:
> You've just discovered that Win98 is crap. Sorry.
> 
> Win9x assumes that the username to connect as should be the one you
> logged in as. No way to connect as a different user, AFAIK. Not even
> anonymous.
> 
> So whatever user you logged into the Win98 machine as, that user should
> be added to Samba with a password. You add them to smbusers as a mapping
> from that name to a valid Linux user, and then use smbpasswd -a to add a
> password for the Linux user.
> 
> Darren
> 
> On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 10:27, Adrian Blake wrote:
> 
>>I have Mandrake 9.0 on a machine and started samba. On the local on 
>>another linux box I try to connect and get:
>>
>>smbclient -L monaro-h
>>added interface ip=10.12.18.55 bcast=10.12.18.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
>>Connection to monaro-h failed
>>
>>On a win98 machine in netwotk neighbourhood clicking on the machine I am 
>>requested for a password, but which password ?
>>
>>Any suggestions?
> 
> 
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