Share authenication

[Bill Moran]

Craig Wiseman wrote:
 > I have managed to get to the point where if I set
 > guest ok to Yes in SWAT, I can 'see' the share and the
 > files. But I cannot modify anything.

Did you set "readonly = no" on the share?

 > I think it is a problem with Win98 not sending the
 > correct username and password to the FreeBSD box, but
 > I'm at a loss as to how to make them both agree on it.

If samba is configured to use encrypted passwords, you need
to add a password with smbpasswd(8) for each user that you
want to have access.  FreeBSD encrypted passwords and MS
encrypted passwords are not compatable.
If you turn off encrypted password you'll need to apply a
registry hack to make Win98 auth without encrypting the
password, but then you won't need smbpasswd.

Read the docs that come with the samba distro, there is some
very excellent stuff in there concerning passwords.


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Bill Moran
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