Samba Question

Dan Jenkins dan at rastech.com
Sun Jul 25 13:17:01 EDT 2004


c.e.smith wrote:

>I am runnjing a mixed network of win 98 and win xp the primary machine i was
>testing on was xp.
>the samba version is not available in the man pages or config file, but it
>comes with redhat 6.0
>I have encripted passwords disabeled I  didn't want to have to use
>passwords at all since this is a privae home network
> the path to the share is created
>I haven't added any smb users (addsmbuser ?)
>no messages with the name of the client machine it just looks like it is
>running as localhost
>  
>
I've redirected my reply back to the list so as to share my answer.

You must use encrypted passwords in Samba. Windows above 95 use 
encrypted passwords. (And, patched versions
of Windows 95 can use them too.)
You would have to edit the registry on each of the Windows boxes to make 
them work with unencrypted paswords.
It's easier to just enable encrypted passwords. The passwords can be 
blank, but the encryption still needs to be on.

You must also add users to Samba. You must add a Linux user first 
(useradd USERNAME) and
then add a Samba user (smbpasswd -a USERNAME).
If you want a blank password, use this command: smbpasswd -a -n USERNAME
(The -n means "no password". The -a means "add Samba user".)

To check your version of Samba, use this command: smbd -V
To check the status of Samba connections, use this: smbstatus

Hope this helps.

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Dan Jenkins (dan at rastech.com)
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