[Scottish] Hopeless newbie question

[Paxton, Darren]

Other way to do it is to enable Swat (samba web administration tool) by
going into /etc/xinetd.d/swat and changing disable to enable if
required, and also allowing access to another network (or run mozilla
locally).

This gives you a nice interface (and help) for making configuration
changes and also for adding users to the database.

Should be preconfigured to look at the suse smb.conf on installation.

Darren

-----Original Message-----
From: scottish-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:scottish-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Kyle Gordon
Sent: 05 September 2005 12:13
To: scottish at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie question


Unless you're doing cross-domain authentification magick, you don't need
to 
use the machine name on your login, in either the user at host, or
domain\user 
format. As long as you have an account that Samba recognises, then you
should 
be able to log in with just your username.

Now, having an account that Samba recognises is another matter. Suse may
have 
some spiffy scripts to synchronise the SMB database with the system
database, 
or it may just leave you high and dry. You can add a user to the Samba 
database by running smbpasswd - `smbpasswd -a steve` - and then entering
in 
an appropriate password. If the user already exists, then it will just
change 
the password for that user. You also have to have an existing Linux user
in 
the system database with the same username before you make a Samba user
- 
which is why I'm surprised that Suse doesn't synchronise it all
automagically 
for you.

If that fails to work, or you've already tried that, send us the most
recent 
logs (grep "log file" /etc/samba/smb.conf to find out where they're
stored) 
and we can have a look at that. It could be that Windows has some 
security/encryption options enabled that is confusing Samba

Kyle

On Monday 05 September 2005 11:45, William Hamilton wrote:
> Steve Logan wrote:
> > After lurking for some years now it's time to come out of the 
> > closet...
> >
> > I've just set up my first serious Linux machine, a PIII 500 running 
> > SuSe Professional 9.1.  Installation went OK and it's now up and 
> > running ready for me to play around with Apache/Tomcat (which is why

> > I want it).
> >
> > Here's my question -
> >
> > I use WinXP for most of my development work and want an easy way of 
> > copying files to and from the SuSe box.  I've correctly set up Samba

> > client and server on the SuSe box, or at least I think I have.
> >
> > From the Suse box I can see my Win2003 network and copy files 
> > across. So that direction works fine.
> >
> > From my XP box I enter the IP address of the Suse box in 'My 
> > Computer' and I get back a list of things - 'groups', 'profiles', 
> > 'users' and 'Printers and Faxes'.  When I click on, say, users I'm 
> > asked to login. Here's where my problem starts.  I enter 
> > 'steve at cactuslinux' as the 'User name' and enter my password (I have

> > already set up an account on the SuSe box called steve and I can 
> > login fine at the Suse machine) but I'm not logged in.  I've tried 
> > all sorts of permutations and combinations for the user name but I'm

> > stumped.
> >
> > I presume I'm doing something daft.  The suse box is called 
> > 'cactuslinux' and there is an account called 'steve'.
> >
> > Help!?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Steve
>
> Ah, you dont need to use the machine name when you login.
>
> Also, as far as I know you need to add a samba user for the Windows 
> box to authenticate against. Unfortunatly I cannot be more helpful 
> than this - I haven't used samba in quite a while but i'm sure someone

> else will be able to help nps.
>
> Basically yes, your doing something daft but it's a common thing and 
> one that actually stumped me for a while when I first started using 
> samba :)
>
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Kyle Gordon
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