Linux Visibility on Microsoft Network

[Rick Stevens]

Waldher, Travis R wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] 
>>Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 1:12 PM
>>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
>>Subject: Re: Linux Visibility on Microsoft Network
>>
>>
>>Wesa, Richard (GE Consumer & Industrial) wrote:
>>
>>>Rick,
>>>After re-installing Linux twice after my last message, I have lost 
>>>MOZILLA so that I cannot do the localhost:901 thing. How 
>>
>>can I install 
>>
>>>MOZILLA at this point? I'm not a happy camper. Sorry to bother you 
>>>again.
>>
>>What did you reinstall?
> 
> 
> Rick, Don't the passwords between the user account on the Redhat machine
> need to be sync'd with the Windows machine (or domain) when using
> user-level access?

Yes, but that wouldn't prohibit browsing.

> That could explain why it shows up on the network and he gets access
> denied/server not available type errors.

There are a world of things that need to be addressed with Samba and
Windows access.  First, if it's NT4SP3/W2K/W2K3/XP/98SE, then you must
enable encrypted passwords in smb.conf.  You must create the Unix users,
then use the smbpasswd program to create the encrypted passwords that
Samba will reference.  If you use the user map, then that must also be
prepared.  You must set up the shares in smb.conf, too.  After all that,
you have to stop and restart nmbd and smbd.

> Note on Samba, we normally tell samba to authenticate through a Windows
> Domain controller here and map the user names out to user ID's.

That makes things a bit easier.

Really, if you're going to use Samba, use swat to set it up AND get a
decent Samba book such as "Using Samba" from O'Reilly.  There are a lot
of weirdnesses with Windows networking.
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