[Samba] No option for username when logging in.

[Francis Buxton]

fixed it!  thank you sir.

i also found that i had run 'passwd' rather than 'smbpasswd'

Jared

On Jan 9, 2004, at 7:46 AM, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

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>> Our Debian 3.01 file server, running Samba 3.0.0 is setup for guest
>> access to all of the shares.  Now I want to add one username, that is 
>> a
>> private share for payroll.  I added the username 'pam' with adduser, 
>> and
>> configured smb.conf, see below.
>>
>> [Payroll]
>>          path = /home/pam
>>          comment = Private
>>          valid users = pam
>>          writeable = yes
>>          username level = 3
>>
>> Do I need to do anything to the smbusers file?
>>
>> When I try to access that share, I'm not able to enter a username.
>> It's defaulting to guest, and prompting for a password.  Actually, 
>> it's
>> doing this for all shares.  When I first set this up a few weeks 
>> back, I
>> was being prompted for a password, but I could never connect
>> successfully, so I left it alone.  (Currently searching the archived
>> logs for an answer.)
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> i'll bet you have 'security = share'.  User mode security is much more
> intuitive.
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> cheers, jerry
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