windoze passwords

[windoze killa]

Straight to the question.

When using samba, does the windoze password for a user have to be the same as the linux password for the user?

ie. if the windoze username is fred and he doesn't use a PW but when fred logs into linux on the other box and his password is 1234 will he be able to access the windoze box.

Reason I am asking is that from the linux box I can view all the files on the windoze box but I don't seem to have write access.

Any ideas?

[jscott]

In a word: No.

These passwords do not have to be the same. Although the user's Windows login/pass must match the samba login/pass if you want things to work easy.

smbpasswd changes only the user's samba password.

passwd changes only the user's account password

Yes, you can map network drives [from Windows to a samba share] using a different user/pass combo than what you logged into Windows with but let's just stick with the basics for now. ;)

make sure the share has these settings in smb.conf


writable = yes
write list = @group_you_want_to_have_write_access

[windoze killa]

Originally posted by jscott


make sure the share has these settings in smb.conf


writable = yes
write list = @group_you_want_to_have_write_access

Thanks. That makes sense. Will try it tonight.