Re: [PLUG] SAMBA

[Eugene Smiley <eugene@esmiley.net>]

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Bill Patterson wrote:
> Is anyone running SAMBA on RHLinux connecting to WindowsME?  I'm not
> sure what to enter when  signing on to Windows and am asked for a user
> name and password.  Thanks for any thoughts.

I have had Samba running on RH 7.x and 8.0 connecting with Win98 and
WinXP.

There are some good reading somewhere in /usr that I can't think of at
the moment (ah, found it... /usr/share/doc/samba-v.v.v/docs/textdocs/)
that gives some good FYI stuff, especially the encryption option.

As someone mentioned you need to look at the SECURITY= option. Which
option you choose depends on what you are trying to do. I use Samba as
a Primary Domain Controller, therefore I use SECURITY=USER and each
user and machine has an entry in passwd and shadow. (Note: This can be
a bitch to get running right. I've gone through this several times and
always enjoy the challenge.)

SECURITY=SHARE is easier. You only need a single user, such as the FTP
user, for everyone.

With SECURITY=SERVER Samba uses another machine/PDC to do the
authentication.

What other questions do you have?

Eugene



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