[ale] samba conf

[Gary S. Mackay]

Don't give up yet! Samba is a great product. For user access, did you enable
encrypted passwords on the linux box? (recommended) If not, did you turn off
encrypted passwords on the Winbloze box? (not recommended). It's complaining
"User unknown", not "Password invalid", so What username are you logging into
winbloze with? If you are not sure, go to the c:\windows directory and delete
all *.pwl files and reboot. It will ask for a username/password to login
again. This time use something that you have already setup in samba. 

	As for the second hard drive, you can NOT have more than one '/' (root)
partition in a *nix system, so mount the new drive as "/public" or "/shared"
or something like that. Then setup samba to share that partition.

- Gary

Luis Luna wrote:
> 
> Does anybody have pointers on trying to setup samba on a caldera 2.3
> openlinux box? I followed all the steps outlined in the openlinux manual. I
> followed the steps at samba.org . I can see the box from windows browse
> list. I can click on the file I shared. But as soon as I try to connect to
> it I get a user unknown error. I used smbpasswd, I set it to sync with the
> domain controller, I manually set the password on the nt box the same as the
> linux user, I did smbuser. What am I missing? Has anybody ever got samba to
> run correctly? I am fairly new to linux, so I am also having another problem
> related to this samba problem. I installed a new hard-drive after I did the
> Caldera install. Linux recognized it as /dev/hdc1. Great! I ran mkfs on
> /dev/hdc1. I made sure that it was in the fstab file. I can mount /dev/hcd1.
> How do I make a "/" mount point on /dev/hdc1 ? I want to create a dir on
> this drive and share it out with samba. I spent about 3 days trying to get
> this config going. I am ready to shuck the whole and just put nt workstation
> on it. The drive will only be used by one or two people at the most anyways.
> I really want to get linux working in this conf to be able to expand it to
> do other work on our network.
> Any help or pointer will be appreciated! Thanks in advance!
> Luis Luna
> mailto:luis at btr-architects.com

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