[Herefordshire] Samba

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi,

No, I want shares on my domain controler to be visible on my Linux box
(currently running an ancient Samba 2.7 something, and going by the
juggling I had to do this evening with fsck/badblocks etc, it won't be
around for much longer).

Andrew.

-----Original Message-----
From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Matt
Stone
Sent: 30 March 2005 13:43
To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] Samba

Hi andrew.

Am i right in thinking you want shares on your samba server to be
visible on your windows box without being prompted for a password
everytime you try to access them?

A quick way of doing that is add yourself as a user on the samba box
using adduser command, set your username to the same as it is on your
windows box password the same as well. Then use:

smbpasswd -a yourname

You'll then be prompted for a password, use the same password you use
for windows and voila, no more annoying password prompts. Another way is
to set the security level to share rather than user but this means
unauthenticated user can have access to your shares.

As for my problems, got em sorted in the end. I ran findsmb which showed
my samba server running with a netbios name of router and workgroup of
workgroup (i've got a long host and domain name) so i just ran

smbmount //server/share /mnt/samba -U username -P password -c
router.workgroup

And it bloody well worked! :)

It's amazing how these things seem so obvious after a good nights kip
and a few coffees

Cheers
Matt


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew at hodgsonfamily.org>
To: <mherbert at redhat.com>; "Herefordshire Linux Users Group."
<herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:51 PM
Subject: RE: [Herefordshire] Samba


Hi,

I have mounted shares on my W2k3 box, but wanted to join the box to the
domain to possibly avoid continuious password prompts.  Any suggestions?


Thanks.
Andrew.



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