[lug] Samba and passwd

[John Karns]

On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, John Starkey uttered:

> I'm trying to map my annoying Windoze machine to my home dir. Everything
> seems to be fine with the exception of the auth. 
> 
> I checked regedit and enabled PlainTextPassword and the smb.conf passwd
> encryption lines are commented out.
> 
> I think this may be the same problem I've been having with Netatalk. 
> 
> Can anyone tell me where else I need to look for this. I'm using shadow
> and tried it both ways with netatalk. Still no luck. 

I don't know anything about netatalk, but for W9x + samba you need to add
entries to smbpasswd.  You can specify the path to smbpasswd in smb.conf,
which IMO is a good idea, because it varies according to compile time
options.  If you compile w/o mods, the default is
sambaSourceDir/private/smbpasswd.  There is a script to create smbpasswd
from /etc/passwd.  Then run "mksmbpasswd username passwd" to change the
passwd to agree with the W9x login pw.

The docs included with the samba distro have all the info.

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John Karns                                              jkarns at csd.net