[Samba] Samba from win2k client

[Michael G. Noble]

Samba does not use the UNIX/Linux /etc/passwd file, it will only look at
the smbpasswd file.  You need to add users to the smbpasswd file.  You 
can do this with the following command: smbpasswd -a <user name>.  If 
you have swat running, you can use the swat interface to add users as 
well.
Since you did not show your smb.conf file, I will assume that your
Samba server is standalone, you should make security = SHARE and
encrypt passwords = Yes.  Win2k sends encrypted passwords.
If you need to sync the UNIX/Linux passwords to the samba you can use
the following:
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
unix password sync = Yes

Mike

On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 07:20, Zoki wrote:
> Le 29/03/2003 20:46, « James Wilford » <james at jwilford.co.uk> a écrit :
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've got an annoying little problem with Samba and Win2k. I installed a Win2k
> > Pro client on the network and set it to use plain text passwords and join the
> > workgroup.
> > 
> > The username and password of the user on the win2k box are the same as the
> > account in /etc/passwd on the linux box. But after logging in, when trying to
> > reconnect the mapped drives the windows box says:
> > 
> > "Incorrect password or unknown username for: \\linuxbox\share"
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 
> *** Had the same problem. Life is too short to try and understand Win2k
> brainstorms so this is what I did:
> 
> - Instruct user to hit "Esc" twice after login to get rid of the error
> window.
> 
> - Created a *.bat file which is in user "Start up" folder and which mounts
> the shares automatically:
> 
> @ECHO OFF
> echo. "............................"
> echo. ""
> echo. "   Mounting Linux drives"
> echo. ""
> echo. "............................"
> net use D: \\[server_name]\[share] [PASSWORD]
> 
> or this if you're connecting to a domain server
> 
> net use D: \\[server_name]\[share] /USER:[DOMAIN]\[DOMAIN_USER_NAME]
> [DOMAIN_PASSWORD]
> 
> P.S. On one line!
> 
> 
> Have fun.
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> Zoran.
> 
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> 
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