Re: Samba

["Steven J. Pulito" <stevenp@seas.upenn.edu>]

I changed smb.conf so that it uses encryption and by adding the following
lines

 encrypt passwords = yes
 smb passwd file = /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd

I used

cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh >/usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd

to create the file and I set the permissions on the file and the private
directory as specified in ENCRYPTION.txt in the samba docs.  However I still
cannot connect to a home dir from my win 98 box, any more suggestions?

Thanks!


-----Original Message-----
From: James Chamberlain <chamberl@magpage.com>
To: Steven J. Pulito <stevenp@seas.upenn.edu>
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: Samba


>Steve,
>    It is a encryption problem. Systems running win95 osr2, win98 and winNT
4.0
>w/ sp3 all by default encrypt the username and password. There are two
solutions
>to this problem. 1. Configure samba to use encrypted passwords and then
sync w/
>the unix passwd file regularly. 2. The is a registry hack the changes the
>default authentication to clear text. The registry hack should be in the
>distribution or you can hind in the docs on the samba home page.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>James Chamberlain
>chamberl@magpage.com
>
>"Steven J. Pulito" wrote:
>
>> Okay two newbie questions:
>>
>> 1) after editing smb.conf what do I need to do to make the changes take
>> effect.
>>
>> 2) I am trying to make the homes section of my smb.conf file work.
>>
>> #============================ Share Definitions
>> ==============================
>> [homes]
>>    comment = Home Directories
>>    browseable = no
>>    writable = yes
>>
>> this is what I have so far, if I use smbmount from my linux box I can
mount
>> the local share like this
>>
>> smbmount //server/username /mnt/mountdir -U username
>>
>> however from windows 98 I cannot connect, I have not been able to try it
>> from a NT box yet, I assume windows is mangling the case of either the
share
>> or the username.. any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Steve
>>
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