Cool did that and SAMBA is going great. Thanks -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Monty Malik Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 3:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] SAMBA headache You have the add the smb group. As root try doing this: groupadd smb This will add the smb group. Hope this helps Monty On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 11:01:56PM -0500, Neil & Kate wrote: > I was trying to set up samba using instructions from mandrakeuser.org > > at one point it says... > > "Preparing A Public Share On The GNU/Linux Machine > Now you'll build a home (a 'guest account') for the Windows machines on the > GNU/Linux machine. For this purpose, create a new user called 'smbuser' > using either 'linuxconf' or the command 'adduser'. Since the home directory > for the Windows machine is public, it might be more intuitive to call the > home directory for 'smbuser' 'public'. The group for 'smbuser' will be the > 'smb' group created with the installation of the samba.rpm on your GNU/Linux > box. The appropriate 'useradd' command looks like this: > > useradd -d /home/public -g smb smbuser" > > When I try to do this I get an error message that "smb is an unknown group". > I do have the samba.rpm loaded. > > How do I manually create the smb group? and what rights/permissions do I > need to give it? or am I barking up the wrong tree completely? > > >
