[Samba] newbie needs direction

Ray Tayek rtayek at mediaone.net
Sun Feb 3 11:05:08 GMT 2002


At 05:12 PM 2/2/02 -0700, you wrote:
>--On Saturday, February 02, 2002 12:59 PM -0800 Ray Tayek 
><rtayek at mediaone.net> wrote:
>
>>i have the same user with the same password on both boxen. do i need to
>>make smbpasswords?
>
>Yes. After you have a user created in the passwd file (& disabled them, if 
>you don't want them to have shell access to the server -- which is how we 
>have done ours), you must run
>smbpasswd -a username
>to add them to the smbpasswd file.

ok. i did this. but no change. net view still stays error 86 after 
recycling samba.

is there anything special that needs to be done on the windoze side?

thanks

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