RE: [PLUG] SAMBA and windoze boxes...

["Bradley Molnar" <brmolnar@ursinus.edu>]

ok, 2 options --

#1 use the same username/password on the windows machine as on the samba box
(use smbpasswd, but, i think you already have this set up).

or

#2 make a file /etc/smbusers
in this file, use
<unix name> = <other name1> <other name2>

for example, this is from mine

brad = bradley brmolnar Brmolnar Gumby "Gumby the Green" "bradley molnar"

allows any of the names above to log in as the unix user 'brad' when
supplying the proper password.

hope it helps

=-brad

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-----Original Message-----
From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
[mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Guillermo Moyna
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 1:47 PM
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] SAMBA and windoze boxes...


Dear All,

This question is kind of removed from LINUX and it's more related to
windoze stupidity.

I have a LINUX box with a SAMBA file server running. I am using a
very vanilla smb.conf file that allows me to share the user
directories and some of their data directories when they connect to
the server from their office machines.

Now, I have a Mac in my office running DAVE (which gives Mac users
access to windoze networks and printers), and things work perfectly:
when I select the SAMBA server, I'm asked for a username and a
password, and when I supply them, I can get my files (duh).

Now, when you use the real deal, i.e., a windoze machine, things
don't work that great. First, when you select the SAMBA server from
the servers in the 'Neighborhood Network' you are not asked for a
username, only a password. Thus, you cannot get to the files. The
problem is that normal users of windoze machines log in to the
'Neighborhood Network' with some stupid user name supplied by IT
(something like your initials and the last four # of your SSN),
which, obviously, does not match the UNIX usernames.

I tried giving a 'guest ok = yes' and 'guest account = someaccount'
to the SAMBA smb.conf file, and things do work, but there is no
security whatsoever. I don't want to do this in our setting, because
all students/faculty/staff can access the files.

Do any of you working in windoze/LINUX mixed environments know how to
get around this problem (which to me is due to windoze's inherent
idiocy)?

TIA

Guillermo
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