RE: [MLUG] samba woes

["Tim Smith" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

What he said! :)  

I guess I never had this problem because my linux and Windows usernames
are always the same anyway, they already exist. :)

-----Original Message-----
From: EMAIL:PROTECTED
[mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Buford
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 7:48 PM
To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
Subject: Re: [MLUG] samba woes

don't forget:

smbadduser <*nix id>:<nt id> first...

It's always the simple things that screw you up....

Rick

Tim Smith wrote:

>You may have already done this, but "just in case"  did you do a:
>
>smbpasswd -a username
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>Making sure that "username" is identical on your NIX box and windows
>box.
>
>Tim
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: EMAIL:PROTECTED
>[mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Haidekker
>Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 1:34 PM
>To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
>Subject: Re: [MLUG] samba woes
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>>Samba uses its own password file, /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Did you set up
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>an
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>>entry in it?
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>>I believe the usernames don't have to match if you're using the
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>password
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>>file.
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>Actually, I took the existence of the smbpasswd file for granted. The
>user 
>name in the smbpasswd file has to match the UNIX user name. If WIndows
>has a 
>different name, you need to translate it via smbusers.
>
>Mark
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