Samba Laziness

[Logan Kennelly]

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On Wednesday 17 July 2002 01:05 am, Trent Shipley wrote:
> 3) Win2K cannot browse any shares.  It's username/Password combo doesn't
> work. (I suspect there are a toggle or two that I'm missing.  Maybe a
> host-allow file or something too.)

I had a similar problem when I set up my Samba share.  After digging through 
the newsgroups, I believe I fixed the problem by adding the following three 
lines into my smb.conf under the "[global]" category:

encrypt passwords = yes
security = share
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd

The reasoning was that Windows 2000 _requires_ that passwords be encrypted 
by default.  Although you can edit the registry to change this option, it 
seems better to just go along with it.

Notes:

I believe /etc/samba/smbpasswd must exist, even if it is a zero byte file.  
The permissions also have to be set so that the world cannot view the file.

The "security = share" may or may not be required.  It has to do with your 
individual configuration, but I don't think there is any issues with 
leaving it as share.  This setting is recommended for "guest" shares where 
no password is required.

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						Logan Kennelly
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