Setting up a small LAN - a cry for help

[Stuart Sears]

On Thursday 24 March 2005 19:01, Mark Nixon wrote:
> Thanks. Now, from my wife's computer, I'm asked for a password, but the
> password I set up isn't recognized. I've been messing around, and I've
> probably messed something very basic up.
good, some progress then?
okay, as someone else has already mentioned, normal user passwords (ie your 
login passwords) are not used by samba - you'll need to add your users to 
*samba's* password database before they can authenticate.
for example:
smbpasswd -a stuart
will prompt for a password for the (already existing) user stuart and add him 
(and his new password)  to the samba db. This can be the same as the normal 
login password, but it doesn't have to be.

once you have done this you should be able to authenticate as stuart from the 
windows boxen...

Stuart

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