Samba Q?

[Gordon Messmer]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Trying to make samba work to the f7 on my lappy fails, I had to reverse it and 
> link from f7 to this machine, which did work.
>
> My main question is "How do I tell samba/cifs to allow lengthy passwords?"
>   

Since Samba is an SMB server, and cifs an SMB client, I have no idea 
which you're having problems with.  Can you describe more explicitly 
what you tried to do, and in what manner it failed?

> My root password is too long unless entered interactively from the keyboard.  
> Where is the bottleneck?
>   

How else would you enter a password?