Hi Tom, Thanks for replying. This puts me in a quandry, however, as to my knowledge I can't change the username in Windows 2000 without blowing up the user's profile. I'll try editing the UIDs and see if that helps any. I have also posted my smb.conf file in another message, so if you see anything glaring in there, please let me know.
Thank you for your help, - Kathy Vaughan -> -----Original Message----- -> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [mailto:redhat-list-admin@;redhat.com]On Behalf Of Tom Pollerman -> Sent: October 20, 2002 21:08 -> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> Subject: Re: Problems configuring SAMBA -> -> I'm not entirely sure about the linux usernames, but I believe that -> they have to be one continuous phrase, and "case" does make a -> difference; example: johnsmith and Johnsmith aren't the same user. You -> can always use 'John.Smith" or "John_Smith." My MS Windows machines -> (Win 3.11 and Win98) don't seem to care about case. In fact, the -> Win3.11 machine will accept a "blank" password as well as a proper -> one. -> The usernames and passwords in Win2000 and Samba's 'valid users' and -> the /etc/samba/smbpasswd file have to be the same. The linux password -> and the samba do not have to be the same. So, you can can have a -> regular root (user) password, and a Samba root ( samba user) password -> that are different. But, then if the user logs in on Win2000 ( where -> there is a valid user named 'root') as 'root', the login password has -> to match the linux /etc/samba/smbpasswd entry. Otherwise, the user -> 'root' on -> the Win2000 machine can't mount shares. -> The problem I was having, was that all my user names and password, -> in linux, Samba,and in Win98, were identical. But only 'root' could -> map drives from the Win98 machine. It turned out that root's UID=0 in -> both the normal /etc/passwd and in Samba's /etc/samba/smbpasswd. But -> my other users UID's did not all match. Editing the -> /etc/samba/smbpasswd file to make the UIDs the same fixed the problem. -> -> -> Best, -> -> Tom -> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
