Samba and passwords

[Bob George]

"Rick Rosinski" <rick@rickrosinski.com> wrote:


> I am just trying to get Samba to work...period.  I want to get by without
> messing around with security stuff, for now.  I am doing this as root.  Do
I
> *have to* set up passwords, on both the Linux and Windows machine, or can
I
> get it up and running without that.

Yes. Probably. I wound up creating a Linux account for each Windows user,
then using smbpasswd to create their password for Samba. Once that's done,
you're supposed to be able to keep them in sync via the Windows client, but
I haven't tried that yet.

What errors are you seeing?

> Don't mean to sound demanding & selfish, I have been at this for a while,
and
> it is frustrating.

I spent some time with the Samba authentication documentation before
settling on this approach. There may be others, but this works well enough
for my little installation. On a larger scale, integrating with NT domains
etc. is probably a more workable approach.

Good luck, and let us know if this worked out for you!

- Bob