F8 Samba

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 23:36 +0100, Antonio wrote:
> 2007/11/29, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>:
> > Antonio wrote:
> >
> > You probably will. Webmin can not create Samba passwords from the
> > passwords in /etc/passwd. The only way you can use the passwords is
> > if you send plain-text password over the network. Windows and Linux
> > uses different password hashing mechanisms. So the encrypted
> > password that Samba uses does not match the one in /etc/passwd.
> >
> > There used to be a section in the Samba docs about this, but I have
> > not looked for it lately.
> >
> > Mikkel
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> On a PC different from Casa....
> smbclient -L Casa
> Connection to Casa failed (Error NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME)
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add to primary samba server...

wins support = yes

add to any other samba servers...

wins server = w.x.y.z (where w.x.y.z is ip address of your wins server)

As for webmin...it is possible (I think...been a while) to set up webmin
to automatically create samba user when creating unix user. I don't know
if samba password is automatically created from unix user at that time.
It cannot convert passwords for existing users but it can import the
user list.

Craig