F8 Samba

[Antonio]

2007/11/30, Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>:
> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 23:36 +0100, Antonio wrote:
> > 2007/11/29, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>:
> > > Antonio wrote:
> > >
> > > You probably will. Webmin can not create Samba passwords from the
> > > passwords in /etc/passwd. The only way you can use the passwords is
> > > if you send plain-text password over the network. Windows and Linux
> > > uses different password hashing mechanisms. So the encrypted
> > > password that Samba uses does not match the one in /etc/passwd.
> > >
> > > There used to be a section in the Samba docs about this, but I have
> > > not looked for it lately.
> > >
> > > Mikkel
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> > On a PC different from Casa....
> > smbclient -L Casa
> > Connection to Casa failed (Error NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME)
> ----
> add to primary samba server...
>
> wins support = yes
>
> add to any other samba servers...
>
> wins server = w.x.y.z (where w.x.y.z is ip address of your wins server)
>
> As for webmin...it is possible (I think...been a while) to set up webmin
> to automatically create samba user when creating unix user. I don't know
> if samba password is automatically created from unix user at that time.
> It cannot convert passwords for existing users but it can import the
> user list.
>
> Craig
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Craig,
tnx for your help: I am very close to a working solution.
But due to a different timezone; I am ready to have a good sleep.
Tnx a lot

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Antonio Montagnani
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