Hello, Can anybody tell me how do I set up smbpasswd file or any other
authentification method for SAMBA 2.2.8?
I installed SAMBA but when i try to login to it from NT machine it
is not accepting local SUN machine's users passwords.
Thanks!
s

sskublickas@hotmail.com (Sigitas) writes:
>Hello, Can anybody tell me how do I set up smbpasswd file or any other
>authentification method for SAMBA 2.2.8?
>I installed SAMBA but when i try to login to it from NT machine it
>is not accepting local SUN machine's users passwords.

smbpasswd is only used when you turn on encrypted passwords inside
your smb.conf. After that it needs the cleartext passwd in order to
encrypt it to compare with what it gets from the client.

You'd just use 'smbpasswd -a username' and it'll prompt a password to
use for the client connection.

If you don't use encrypted passwords you'll probably have to turn on
cleartext authentication on the clients. There's .reg files for each
client to run to enable that on the windows sides included somewhere
in the Samba distribution.

--
Doug McIntyre merlyn@visi.com
Network Engineer/Jack of All Trades
Vector Internet Services, Inc.

Sigitas wrote:
>
> Hello, Can anybody tell me how do I set up smbpasswd file or any other
> authentification method for SAMBA 2.2.8?
> I installed SAMBA but when i try to login to it from NT machine it
> is not accepting local SUN machine's users passwords.
> Thanks!
> s

comp.protocols.smb is probably the best place for this question.

Could be a number of things together or one little thing. The issue is
probably not your Sun box. Missing local accounts or long
domain-usernames which aren't mapped can trip that. "security = ..."
set to the wrong thing could be another. Lookup the manpage for
'smb.conf' and 'smbpasswd' locally or at samba.org. Use the logging
facility and see what it says. Etc.