Samba Question -- Users cannot access home directories

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:12 -0500, Tim Holmes wrote:

> 
> Craig -- the testparam -sv returned the following output and the
> onscreen display indicated loaded services file OK
> 
> I have this feeling that I am in way over my head -- I printed the how
> to book last night, so as soon as I get done teaching tonight im gonna
> dive in there and see what I can find, but any help you can supply would
> be gratefully accepted
> 
> My Current SMB.CONF file is appended after the output of the testparam
> -sv below
> 
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You obviously fixed the 'services' issue by using Thomas' stuff

The problem that you are having with users and passwords is that you
have to have both Linux users and samba users.

i.e.

useradd craig # adds user craig to Linux system
passwd craig # sets password for user craig on Linux system
smbpasswd -a craig # adds Linux user craig to samba
smbpasswd craig # sets samba password for samba user craig

Some amount of this can be shortcut - read the HOWTO

Craig