Connecting to a Windows share

Jim DeCaro jdecaro2 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 20 16:15:47 EDT 2006


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.

On 9/5/06, Tom Diehl <tdiehl at rogueind.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Jim DeCaro wrote:
>
> > I am not sure what you mean by your questions. (??? {:-~ ||) I added
> users
> > and gave them share permissions.  I used the share mounting daemon for
> the
> > distro.  I am using Ubuntu 6, Fedora 5, and SuSE 10.1.  I will look into
> the
> > samba applets and see if I can see what you mean.
>
> What passdb are you using for samba, smbpasswd, ldap, etc.??
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom
>
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On 9/3/06, Vick <vadimtux at verizon.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>    Did you add all the users and passwords to samba though? I had that
> >> issue too. Also what do you use to mount shares?
> >>
> >> Jim DeCaro wrote:
> >> > A consistent problem I am encountering when working with various
> Linux
> >> > distros is connecting to smb shares on a Windows network.  Very
> often,
> >> > the
> >> > connection will not accept the credentials I type in for the local
> >> > system.
> >> > I am connecting to file shares on a peer to peer Windows
> workgroup.  The
> >> > shares show up, but I cannot authenticate to access them.
> >> >
> >> > Any advice?
> >> >
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