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From: "Felix Miata"
On 2006/12/13 22:29 (GMT-0500) Thomas Miller apparently typed:
Unfortunately, it failed to change the password. I am assuming the default password is blank? So when it asked for my old password, I should just hit enter.
Before there can be a samba user setup with smbpasswd there must be a user of same name setup with useradd or a GUI tool for user management. Once the user "msuser" exists in /etc/passwd, then you can create the corresponding samba user "msuser" thus 'smbpasswd -a msuser', and it will then ask for the password you wish msuser to use. --
To make it simple, an example with help. The easiest way to avoid problems when you are getting started is to make sure the windows user name and password are the same as the linux user name and password. So if you have a windows login of "joe" and password of "blow", then on the linux box (as root) (1) useradd joe (2) smbpasswd -a joe enter password: blow (3) then make sure that you define a valid share in /etc/samba/smb.conf [myshare] comment = I want to share this with windows path = /home/samba/directorytoshare writeable = Yes inherit permissions = Yes Also, under the [global] section of the smb.conf file you will want to set: wins support = yes to help with netbios name resolution That should do it........ -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org