Re: setting up samba

["Andy Enderby" <andy enderby btconnect com>]

Thanks again Rick. I've never had a problem configuring Samba with plain
text passwords but it isn't really appropriate to use plain text in a
production environment.
 Is any additional configuration necessary client side ?

Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Stevens" <rstevens vitalstream com>
To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: setting up samba


> Andy Enderby wrote:
> > NT usually uses password encryption. You may need to configure the
> > appropriate encryption module. I'm not actually sure how  to do this
> > myself, if anyone could help with this I'd be grateful myself actually.
>
> You need to make sure these are in your smb.conf file:
>
> encrypt passwords = yes
> smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
>
> The Windows users must also be in the /etc/passwd file AND you must
> add them to the /etc/samba/smb/passwd file by use of the "smbpasswd"
> command.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens vitalstream com -
> - VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
> -                                                                    -
> -             To iterate is human, to recurse, divine.               -
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Redhat-install-list mailing list
> Redhat-install-list redhat com
> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list