On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:57 PM, J. L. Cabral wrote:
> I've seen an implementation where the Windows desktops belong to
> "Company.com" domain and the Samba server was a stand-alone server
> with workgroup = "SALES", and Windows clients access to Samba
> resources succesfully.
>
> I mean here the
If you have a Windows of Samba machine that is not a domain member,
having the workgroup name match the domain name will make browsing for
resources easier.
If you have Windows or Samba machine that is not a domain member, using
the same password for the local account as the domain accounts s
at the most basic level a domain is a workgroup with a central auth
server, so yes, you set the samba workgroup to the domain
you can manually maintain linux users, which you will find fiddly and
tedious, or you can join the samba server to the domain as well and
have it use the central auth serve
Dear, I've seen an implementation where the Windows desktops belong to
"Company.com" domain and the Samba server was a stand-alone server
with workgroup = "SALES", and Windows clients access to Samba
resources succesfully.
I mean here the Samba's workgroup is different from Windows' domain,
so is
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 15:01 -0300, J. L. Cabral wrote:
> Dear, If I have a Windows XP box joined to a Domain called "Company"
> with a user "Jelo" I as you:
>
> Do I have to put Workgroup = Company in smb.conf ???
Yes.
>
> And do I have to use the same passwords for the Windows and
> Linux/Samb
Dear, If I have a Windows XP box joined to a Domain called "Company"
with a user "Jelo" I as you:
Do I have to put Workgroup = Company in smb.conf ???
And do I have to use the same passwords for the Windows and
Linux/Samba users ???
Thanks a lot,
JeLo
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Bob Mil
>
> What can be the problem ??? Do I have to use for Samba the same
> password as used in Windows or not ???
I have found that it is just easier to use the same credentials for each
user on all machines in a workgroup. Windows is pretty quirky about
when it will allow you to use alternate crede
Dear, I have Debian + Samba and I've created a smb.conf in order to
authenticate users I've created with "useradd -s /bin/false" and after
that added to samba with "smbpasswd -a user".
I've created the share in /var/share with rwxrwxrwx.
I edited some lines from smb.conf in GLOBAL and SHARE secti
