Samba Newbie

[James Austin]

Lynn,
Just got my samba working with win2k and running on Linux 7.1.
Important steps are:
1) enable encrypted passwords in the registry on Windows.
2) add the user on the Samba server with the "password -a username"
command.
3) Enable encrypted password = yes in smb.conf.
4) restart smbd and nmbd after changes to the smb.conf file
hth,
Jim

Lynn Turriff wrote:

> I've been lurking here for a month or six weeks or so,
> and would just like to point out that the samba docs
> are sometimes something less than useful to a linux
> newbie.
>
> I have read the docs and man files, and have several
> linux manuals, but still can't get my system to
> acknowledge my NT4 network, much less communicate with
> it. I have reloaded RH 7.1 several times. I can ping
> all the machines on the net, but obviously something is
> dead wrong somewhere in the samba configuration.
> Ironically, I can get mail and surf through my NT
> proxy, but have made exactly zero progress with samba.
>
> I have tried without success to find some local brains
> to pick. Someone suggested to me that it might be
> easiest to communicate with my NT net via ftp and
> telnet - this actually might be a useful solution in my
> case, except that it doesn't allow me to access any
> printers, and when I went looking for printer
> information, well ...  And it wouldn't help those who
> are trying to replace NT servers altogether, which is
> my ultimate goal.
>
> So rtfm is not *always* the answer ... thanks anyway.
>
> And undying gratitude to anyone who would care to help
> those of us out who have read so much documentation
> that we are about to hit cranial meltdown :-)
>
> Direct email is great in my case.
>
> tnx,
>
> Lynn
>
> > Perhaps it's a good idea to start reading the Samba documentation,
> > which
> > contains a step by step guide to install and configure samba.
> >
> > grtz,
> > Dennis
> >
> >> Hi
> >> I am newbie to linux and samba .I will appreciate any help from
> >> your
> >> side to install,configure..successfully run samba on redhat
> >> linux be
> >> possible.(steps by steps is preferrred).How to start with the
> >> installation.
>
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