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LNXNuB
02-19-2003, 05:23 PM
My friend and I are trying to set up a Linux server at school. The class computers are runnning windows xp and are already networked. We joined their network and have configured Samba so you can log on. The problem is, the only user name that will work is root. Naturally we don't want to give out our root password to each classmate. We've tried making user names and passwords with the identical username as the windows machines but have not succeeded. Can you point out our mistake.

homey
02-19-2003, 05:54 PM
Did you make the samba users and samba passwords?

vi /etc/samba/smbusers
press the insert key and add the user

example: fred = username

press the escape key and type: :wq!


cd /etc/samba

smbpasswd -a fred

enter the password