On Monday 31 Mar 2003 11:33 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 15:44, richard bown wrote: > > Now I'm confused :( > > > > The windows box only has 2 users, both have a null string as a password, > > ie I login as "richard" with a blank password. > > When I login to this box as a user "richard" and the password is > > "richard". > > I dont think linux likes null strings as passwords. > > On the Linux machine you'll need to create equivalent samba users with: > > smbadduser richard:richard > It will prompt for a password. Just press Enter to disable the > passwords. > I have only ever once added one user with a null password, and it never worked. I don't think samba does like null passwords - though it's possible that there is a minimum length for passwords set somewhere. To eliminate this as a suspect, could you set one of the windows machine with a password, match it on linux and samba and see if it appears?
Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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