Connecting to a Windows share

[Lee Marzke]

Jim,

Did you set the username/password for the user Jim using  smbpasswd ?
Samba does NOT use the password/shadow file for password !

Lee



Jim DeCaro wrote:
> Here are the files.  I have a user named Jim on an XP box and on a Suse
> Linux 10.1 install.  Both have the same password.  I have enabled write
> permissions on the share for jim on the linux box.  I cannot get the
> connection from thw Windows box to the linux box to authenticate.  It 
> tells
> me I do not have permission to connect to the shares, however I can see
> them.  I will get a logon dialogue box that does not work.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.  Interestingly, samba works fine for
> connections between the linux boxes, and it works most of the time from
> linux to windows.  But not from windows to linux.
>
>
>
> On 9/21/06, Jim DeCaro <jdecaro2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Will do.  Thank you.
>>
>> On 9/20/06, Tom Diehl <tdiehl at rogueind.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Jim DeCaro wrote:
>> >
>> > > Whatever the default is.  I am a newbee to linux.  I didn't realize
>> > samba
>> > > had configurable dbs.  I am mostly using the GUI (xWindows) to
>> > configure the
>> > > network connections.  Once I master the GUI's, then I was going to
>> > move up
>> > > to the terminal.
>> >
>> > OK in that case you are most likely using a smbpasswd file, or at 
>> least
>> > that
>> > is what you should be using. You have to create it and add your 
>> users to
>> > it.
>> >
>> > If you have a linux user named jdecaro then you can add a samba 
>> user by
>> > running
>> > smbpasswd -a jdecaro. If you did not do that step then samba will not
>> > work.
>> >
>> > If it still does not work, show your smb.conf and tell us again 
>> exactly
>> > what the
>> > problem is. I think I remember but...
>> >
>> > Also http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/ and/or
>> > http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ might be
>> > useful
>> > to you.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > --
>> > Tom Diehl               tdiehl at rogueind.com             Spamtrap 
>> address
>> > mtd123 at rogueind.com
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>>
>> -- 
>> Jim DeCaro, MCSE Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0
>>
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