<snip> - Samba and Linux passwd synchronization... How do you setup Samba in SUSE? Well, you open up YaST and start up Samba server. How do you All you need is one password on the samba server, and then everything can be set up in SWAT (if you don't know what that is, then try reading
give you children access there? Well from YaST you create new users. And then comes the catch - they can not access any smb-shares. And no, you can not fix it from the YaST - even though you could do everything else from there. You have to go down to command line. And then teach everybody that you have these 2 different passwords to use. If you insist on giving everyone a different password on each machine,
On 2007-01-14 06:17, HG wrote: the samba docs -- package samba-doc, if you don't have it installed, I'll give you a hint: http://localhost:901) and Yast. then not even Windows is going to help you -- you will still need a separate password to connect to another machine. You can also set up an individual share, or even the entire samba server, as "guest allowed", in which case no password is needed to connect to it. If you insist on the security a fully passworded network gives you, then think things through and read some documentation before configuring your network. (That will also mean you won't post silly nonsense such as "samba on Linux requires different passwords on each system".) LDAP has been suggested to you. PS, don't forget to configure your firewall properly, but if you do, don't complain to us that it cannot be done. -- The best way to accelerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s² -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org