[Samba] Re: Fatal Samba bug? Why can't anyone answer this question?

[Akemi Yagi]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:00:23 +1000, Ron House wrote:

> A few more facts: the user attempting to mount the share has the same uid
> and password on all machines, so unless there is some other password
> somewhere in the samba system, it _is_ getting the right password.
> Furthermore, all machines can ssh and scp to/from all others.

Have you looked at the /etc/samba/passwd file?  It could be
/etc/samba/smbpasswd depending on the distro.

> BTW, when changing smb.conf, what is the recommended way to restart the
> samba server with the new settings? The man pages aren't too clear on
> that.

/etc/init.d/samba restart
(or /etc/init.d/smb restart -- check the /etc/init.d directory)

HTH,
Akemi