Bad Authorization

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Sun Nov 11 22:01:15 GMT 2001


On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Adil Shafi wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to setup Samba 2.2.1a via swat and when I enter the root name and
> password I keep getting the '401: Bad Authorization' error.  I've created
> the root name and password via smbpasswd at it still won't work.  Any
> suggestions?

SWAT authenticates against /etc/passwd (not smbpasswd). You may
need to explore --with-pam.








cheers, jerry
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