samba problem.

[Shaun Oliver]

I think I found the problem.
the file in /usr/lib/samba/private called smbpasswd did not exist so I
created it with the smbpasswd command. If you login as root, and do
smbpasswd -a username there username is the user account you want to add
samba access to, it will then come up prompting you for a password. if
you already have a password, just type it in and it will create the
smbpasswd file in /usr/lib/samba/private.
I hope this solution helps alot of others that need it.
I've just had my partner try to access my drive as I type this email and
it worked. so there's no need for me to edit the windows registery either.


Shaun..
"Has anyone ever tasted an "END"? Are they really bitter?"
EMAIL: shauno at goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435
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On Thu, 24 May 2001, Stephen Dawes wrote:

> Shaun,
> 
> I don't know if anyone has suggested this to you or not, as I haven't been
> following this thread all that closely.
> 
> There is a Web interface for configuration SAMBA.  I don't know if it will
> be useful for you or not, not knowing what you use for a browser, and
> secondly, not know how visually intensive the application is.
> 
> The SAMBA Web configuration tool is called swat.
> 
> Just thought you may want to know, and maybe it will help you solve the few
> final issues that it sounds like are lingering around.
> 
> 
> 
> Stephen Dawes B.A. B.Sc.
> Web Business Office, The City of Calgary
> PHONE:  (403) 268-5527. FAX: (403) 268-6423
> E-MAIL ADDRESS:  sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> > [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Shaun Oliver
> > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 8:06 AM
> > To: 'speakup at braille.uwo.ca'
> > Subject: RE: samba problem.
> >
> >
> > Steve and everyone else, thanks for your help with my samba problem.
> > I've sorted it out to a point where I can at least brows the drives on the
> > other machine.
> >
> >
> > Shaun..
> > "Has anyone ever tasted an "END"? Are they really bitter?"
> > EMAIL: shauno at goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435
> > YAHOO ID: blindman01_2000 IRC NICK/SERVER: |3|1ndm4n on #aussiefriends on
> > www.jong.com:6667
> >
> > On Thu, 24 May 2001, Holmes, Steve wrote:
> >
> > > a shorter version of this is to use the smbmount command like this:
> > > smbmount //host/sharename /mountpoint
> > > This only works with recent kernels with smbfs and recent
> > version of samba.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Geoff Shang [mailto:gshang at uq.net.au]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 1:23 PM
> > > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > > Subject: Re: samba problem.
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi:
> > >
> > > I realise you're going about doing a much more complicated
> > samba setup than
> > > I use, but it might be worth telling what I did.
> > >
> > > I only really want to read windows shares from linux, as I have no real
> > > need to go the other way.  I just set the shares up in windows,
> > then used
> > > the mount command as per normal to mount it.  Mount calls
> > smbmount in order
> > > to achieve this.  The syntax for mounting smb shares is:
> > >
> > > mount -t smbfs //host/sharename /mountpoint
> > >
> > > The mount procedure will prompt you for the password.
> > >
> > > So for example, I mount my primary windows drive as follows:
> > >
> > > mount -t smbfs //picard/c /windows/c
> > >
> > > Where picard is the name of the windows box, c is the sharename on the
> > > windows box, and /windows/c is the mount point (this last one
> > could just as
> > > easily be /mnt or whatever).
> > >
> > > Geoff.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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