RE: [SLUG] SAMBA Mandrake 8.2 and Windows XP

[Kevin Saenz <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok this works a treat but is there away to authenticate users thru the
/etc/passwd file rather than smbpasswd? I would like to have one
authentication point

Thanks

Kevin
> that is because you are not authenticated on the samba box.  unlike windows,
> which likes to tell anyone anything, samba requires you to authenticate to
> it before it will tell you anything.
> 
> hence, what you should do is add a normal unix user to the mandrake box, use
> smbpasswd -a to add the user, then on the windows side do a "net use
> \\mandrake82\ipc$ /user:xx" and then you can use your net view command.
> 
> if you want to use samba as a pdc, you will have to run a registry patch on
> the box, and change a local security policy as well.  the steps are outlined
> in a doc inside the samba source code tree (i'm unsure if it is included in
> mandrake 8.2).
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Saenz [mailto:kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 12:41 PM
> To: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [SLUG] SAMBA Mandrake 8.2 and Windows XP
> 
> 
> has anyone configured Samba under mandrake to run as a PDC so that w2k
> and XP boxes access shared drives on it?
> 
> I am having nothing but trouble. if i use net view in xp I get System
> error 5 has occurred. Access denied.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
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