From: Jim F. <ji...@em...> - 2004-04-16 21:42:27
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Hello, I'm running EMC bdi2.18 and using a copy of samba rpm from a old redhat6.2 CD. (yes I know that version of samba has several big security bugs but its my home network and all machines are firewalled from the outside net) I do not use encrypted passwords since I have a mix of win98/linux/xp/netware machines on my home network all doing some sort of file sharing. This makes it a little bit easier and have edited the registry also. Registry entry for Win98 is. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP DWORD is "EnablePlainTextPassword" = 1 Warning: for those who don't know anything about the registry, don't touch it. You can mess up windows really bad. Here are some things to try. Create a known username/password login on the emc linux PC. Make sure you have created a share definition in the smb.conf file My share definition at the end of the smb.conf file looks something like this. My EMC computer is not working right now so can't copy smb.conf file for you. [EMC] comment = EMC browseable = yes path = / public = no writable = yes printable = no Make sure Samba is running. /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb status Any changes to smb.conf, you will need to restart samba again. /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart. Note: You can use /usr/sbin/ntsysv and click on the smb box so samba will auto start up when pc is turned on. If running a windows98 box make sure Client for Microsoft Networks and enable File and Print Sharing is setup correctly in the Control Panel/Network configuration. Since you see the linux computer in the network neighborhood, I am assuming you have this correct. On the Windows Start tab, logoff the current user. You will be prompted to enter a new username and password. In the username entry, make sure it is the same name that you have created on the linux pc. You can leave the password blank and press OK. Goto Network Neighborhood and click on your linux PC. It will prompt you for a password. Enter the one you have created on the linux PC. You can click on the little box to tell it to remember password so you don't have to enter it next time. If running XP, you will have to create a username that matches the one you created for the linux box. Goto Control Panel/User Accounts to create it. Login as the user in XP and browse the My Network Places for the linux PC. It should prompt for password and enter the one you have created on the linux PC. For some reason my XP computer won't remember my linux password and I have to enter it everytime. If still having problems, check the samba log file. On my pc, it is located in /var/log/samba The two log files are log.nmbd and log.smbd, it will sometimes give you enough info on why the login was unsuccessful. This is what works for me, there is probably an easier way....YMMV Jim -----Original Message----- From: emc...@li... [mailto:emc...@li...]On Behalf Of Shyamkiran Garlapadu Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 6:29 AM To: emc...@li... Subject: [Emc-users] samba server setup Hi, I have been trying to configure samba server. I can see the linux computer in the network neighborhood but when I try to access it it asks for a password. I have done a lot of things with the smb.conf file. Also I changed the registry entry in the windows machine to accept Plain passwords than encrypted passwords. Can anyone send me the detail of how to come out of this. Also it would be great if I could be a smb.conf file. Shyam Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th |