On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 21:16 -1000, Jerome Lyles wrote:
On Saturday 18 June 2005 05:27 pm, Susemail wrote:
Using Yast I could not set privileges for 'nobody' but I did notice nobody has a predefined password. I've seen this before with other system users. I've never been able to find out what the password is. I'm going to delete it to see if that helps. Usually the system will recreate it though. In this case it's a six token password. ps: Yast insists on a password so I'll use my user password instead of the one supplied. pps: It changed the password back to the system one (Suse 9.3) anyone know what it is?
Why do you think you need this password? Leave it alone. If you absolutely need to login to this account (I can see no reason) su root then su nobody.
Hi Greg, I have tried many things, starting with your suggestions. Then I tried accessing the Samba Server on it's own host. Sometimes I used smb//:adriel@linux/users or smb//:linux/users and sometimes I used the Network desktop Icon (remote:/). I found that I cannot log on to the Samba Server on it's own host: Access denied! I hope this is a vital clue to someone. There should be an obvious reason(s) (to someone) why I can't log on to the Samba Server on it's own host using my own user and password on this system.
This will interest you Greg. When I use remote:/ (Network Desktop Icon) to access your example:
If you want to use user security then you need to add smb users with smbpasswd, at least that has always solved it for me. man smbpasswd for more info. You can also set samba to automatically add/remove user access when linux users are added/removed. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge