I am putting this off for a while.  I decided to merge the two systems 
together - dual boot.  Windows is only useful to me for games now, and my 
winbox is only a Cyrix 686 / 166mhz and the good games that I have hardly run 
on that processor.  When I decide to build a faster linux box, and use this 
one for windows, I will try Samba again, and I will let you all know if I 
succeed or fail.  Thanks alot for your advice, and I have saved the info for 
later.

On Wednesday 21 March 2001 19:51, you wrote:
> "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
>
>
>
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