Samba signon question

tudza tudza at tudza.com
Tue Nov 22 12:27:21 UTC 2005


Yep, that is what I needed exactly.

I had figured out that I needed a samba password file of some sort, but 
I couldn't recall how to create such a thing.

tudza wrote:

> I have Samba running and I know where to find the smb.conf file.  I 
> know this because my Kubuntu machine shows up and it shows up in the 
> workgroup MSHOME as I set it by editing the smb.conf file.
>
> Now the problem is when I click on the link in my Windows machine I 
> get a username and password dialogue, but typing in my username and 
> password for my Kubuntu machine does now allow access.
>
> What do I do about this?
>

    You may need to set up a Samba password on the Linux box.

    smbpasswd -a <user> I think is the command.  Check out the Samba
    docs though. 

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