Linux Samba almost setup

[Stephen L Arnold]

On 13 Mar 99, "Tom Roche" <tom_roche at ncsu.edu> had questions about 
Linux Samba almost setup:  

> I got a number of responses to my last post; thanks to all. I
> implemented them in /etc/smb.conf as follows:
 [snip]
The workgroup names just need to match.  I'm pretty sure you need 
the hosts allow line.  If you only have one NIC, you shouldn't need 
the interfaces line.

> > ;  encrypt passwords = yes

This is where your setup might be inconsistent.  The RedHat rpm 
puts files in different places (eg, smbpasswd) than the stock samba 
install (why, I have no idea).  You can look in the samba src rpm, 
or compare the RedHat makefile in the samba src package to the 
regular makefile.

RedHat installs without shadow passwords by default, however the 
password tools support them.  All you have to do is create the 
/etc/shadow file.  If you're using shadow passwords, then you will 
have this file, and /etc/passwd will have all passwords stripped 
out of it.  See the RedHat Install Guide for more.

Samba can look in /etc/shadow for passwords, but the RedHat binary 
doesn't have it compiled in.

Oh, and I think the RedHat52 /etc/hosts file needs to have this:

127.0.0.1	localhost

not loopback.  Also, you should kill named if it's starting at 
bootup.  Look in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d (rc5.d if you're starting xdm) for 
the link that starts named and change the S to a K in the link name 
(sorry if you already know this:).

That's about all I can think of for now...

Steve


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