Configuration Problems

[Johnny L Wales]

Ah! I see.. That makes sense. I suppose I can just set up a proper guest
user and have that user serve up the /newdrive/backups/ stuff..

--me

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Herb Lewis wrote:

> Johnny L Wales wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > My smbpasswd file -does- contain a user named johnny and I -am- sure that
> > I'm getting the password right. Is there anything in particular that would
> > cause this?
> 
> you say your smbpasswd file contains a user johnny, but is this user in
> /etc/passwd and are you using that password? You do not specify 
> "encrypt passwords = yes" in your smb.conf file so you are not using 
> smbpasswd file for authentication.
> 
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