Samba Set Up Trouble

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 20:46 -0700, John Wheat wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 20:02 -0700, John Wheat wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Part of my issue is cleared up she will just have to login with my user.
> >> I cannot even connect to the share from Linux as "user" john. I also 
> >> cannot do so from windows anymore either. I am not sure now what I have 
> >> messed up. I am going to see if I can find a mostly working config I had 
> >> in Ubuntu.
> >>     
> > ----
> > does user 'john' exist in Linux?
> > did you create a user 'John' in Linux by mistake?
> > reset your smbpassword for user john...
> >
> > smbpasswd john
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >   
> john is my user. Established when I installed Debian
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OK - you're being incomplete

if you have a Linux user john, and you have a samba user john, then you
should be able to connect to your Linux server as john..

smbclient -L WHATEVER_SERVER_BIOS_NAME_OR_IP_ADDRESS -U john

and it will ask you for a password and it is either accepted or
rejected.

if it is rejected, change your samba password by issuing command...

smbpasswd john

This isn't rocket science

Craig