Heather, No password doesn't matter as long as there is no password on both XP and LM accounts.
What are the permissions on smbusers? On my system, that's in /etc/samba BTW. Do an "ls -l" and check the ownership as well as the permissions. On mine it's: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97 Nov 17 04:26 smbusers Remember that the first group seen here as "rw-" refers to the owner of the file, not to root unless root owns the file. If you have created smbusers with ownership other than root, try "chown root:root smbusers" to make it owned correctly, then try editing. Do this as root of course. HTH Brian On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 11:04, Heather Reed wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Erylon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 11:28 PM > Subject: Re: [newbie] permissions on the network > > > > as root: #chmod 2777 /the_location_of_your/public_directory > > > OK - my tutorial must have had a typo as it left the 2 out of 2777! > > > You must have the same username and password on your XP and your Mandrake > > accounts > > > OK :-)) > > > encrypt passwords = Yes #in samba.conf > > > I don't have a password for the windows account, and not for the mandrake > account either - I wonder if i need to change that? > > > Unix_name = SMB_yourusername #in /etc/smbusers > > > I don't seem able to modify the file - I am logged in as root, but get an > error message 'you don't have permission to write to this file'. DOH!!!!! > > > You're making really good progress. It took me 3 days to get samba going > the > > first time I did it! > > > Well - I thought i was until a while ago - now I am stuck again! > Thanks - any suggestions about the above? > Heather > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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