Samba Access from WinXP

[Ali Helmy]

Where exactly should I add the samba user? When I open up te server config
window, and I click ad users, it already has ahelmy listed...

However, my WinXP username is not the same, is that it?

On 20/03/06, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
>
> Ali Helmy wrote:
> > Hey mates,
> >
> > I set-up a smaba server on my laptop with a shared folder, and correct
> > work-group access, so that I can see it from my WinXP program on the
> > network... Now, I also managed the correct user access for the server,
> > with username = my username (ahelmy) and password...
> >
> > However, I cannot access the server (or the shared folder, that is) from
> > my WinXP pc, so... what else should I do? When I try and access it, I
> > get the permission denied error mesage
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> You need to run smbpasswd to add your user to the Samba user
> database, and set the password. Windows and Linux use different
> password algorithms for encrypting passwords. So Samba can not
> use the Linux password unless you set XP to use plain text
> passwords when talking to the Samba server.
>
> This is all covered in the Samba documentation.
>
> Mikkel
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