On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 21:54 -0500, Josh Battles wrote: > David Clymer said: > > Please remember to reply to the list, not to the individual. I > > will reply on-list so that everyone can (hopefully) benefit > > from our exchange. > > Sorry about that. > > > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 08:42 -0500, Josh Battles wrote: > >> David Clymer said: > >> > >> > When you say that you can't log on, do you mean that your > >> > username/password is rejected, or that you just dont see any shared > >> > folders? What error messages are you getting on the clients when they > >> > attempt to "log on"? > >> > >> My username and password is rejected. My Debian desktop picked up almost > >> instantly a folder called "shared on beer" (beer is the server hostname) > >> and > >> popped it on the desktop when I booted. I'm able to see that same folder > >> in > >> Win2k but not access it from either OS. > > > > For each computer (NT,2k,XP) that logs on to your domain, you will need to > > have set up a trust account: > > > > $ adduser --home /dev/null --shell /bin/false --ingroup machine > > --force-badname --no-create-home --disabled-login --gecos "Machine Trust > > Account" MYCOMPUTER$ > > $ smbpasswd -m -a MYCOMPUTER > > So, if I'm going to add a user called "cletusjones" to my box called "beer" > it would go something like this: > > adduser cletusjones --home /dev/null --shell /bin/false --ingroup machine > --force-badname --no-create-home --disables-login --gecos "Machine Trust > Account" BEER >
no. you add the user account and machine accounts separately, and the unix computer account must end with a dollar sign. As per my examples. > and: > > smbpasswd ****** -m -a BEER > > correct? no. in unix, most commands have a manual page explaining their options, syntax, etc. please read the man page to find out what is wrong with your usage. type: $ man smbpasswd > > > for each user that logs on or accesses shares, you need to have a unix and > > samba account: > > > > $ adduser --shell /bin/false --disabled-login userbob > > $ gpasswd -a userbob samba > > $ smbpasswd -a userbob > > For these statements, I'm replacing "userbob" with my usernames and that > should just be it, yes? yes. You might find this helpful: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ -davidc -- gpg-key: http://www.zettazebra.com/files/key.gpg
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