Aloowing access to specific samba users
Bob Latham
bob.latham at castlehigh.plus.com
Tue May 13 12:10:10 UTC 2008
In article <4825BAD7.2030706 at infinity-ltd.com>,
Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> A couple of things - first, with Win98 you are normally using share
> rather then user security when you share a directory on that
> machine. Also, because Windows and Linux uses different password
> encryption, you have to give Samba users a password in addition to
> the standard Linux password. They can be the same, and it can be set
> up so that they are kept in sync once created.
> If you want to use the Linux passwords directly, you have to tell
> Windows to yous unencrypted passwords. This is somewhat of a
> security risk. This is covered in the Samba documentation.
Thanks for that. Very helpful.
Cheers,
Bob.
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