[SWLUG] Samba - Mandrake 9.1

[Terry John]

>On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 12:11 pm, Terry John wrote:
>> I don't need to use smbpasswd at
>> all. It just requires that your windows user & password are exactly 
>> the same as the Linux user & password.

>Since the Windows password is sent as a hash which can't be decoded
(cracked, 
>yes - decoded no) I can't see how that would work. ISTR the samba manual 
>actually says that smbpasswd needs to be used. However I'm sure I remember 
>not needing to play with it in the oldern days...

'Tis true. I accept what you say and I can't explain it fully but I don't
even have an /etc/samba/smbpasswd file at all. Perhaps it's becuase I'm
using Windows 95 at home :-)