After much trial and error (mainly error!) I've got my Linux box logging on to Windows shares, and can copy from and write to the Windows machine using Samba.

After even more trial and error, I can see my Linux box from various flavours of Windows: 95, 98, NT and Win2k - I can see the share directories I have set up on my Linux box, but whenever I try and browse the share directories that I can see on the Linux machine I keep getting asked for a user name and password.

I have set up usernames that correspond to the Windows machines and entered passwords which I can see in the combintaion of etc/passwd and etc/shadow

In smb.conf I have set up

smb passwd file = etc/passwd

I have tried security = user and share - both give the same result.

Anyone able to help a relative newbie?

Cheers,

Rob

Well i,ll give it a go.

The command I used was

smbclient -a [username]

i.e. smbclient -a recoiluk

but the account in question has got to be a proper user account and has to have allready been setup, as well as in windows

User account in Linux = recoiluk

Windows logon at boot = recoiluk

Then run the command above to set the samba password to the linux user acount password.

Hope that helps, did for me about 5mins ago.

RecoilUK

Thanks for the reply Recoil, however I can't see how that can be right!

smbclient -a

isn't a valid option at all as far as I can tell.

smbclient -A is, but I can't get that to work anyway! I assume in your line:

smbclient -a recoiluk

you're setting up recoil as a valid account on the Linux box, for the Windows box to log onto? This just doesn't seem to work for my version of smbclient.

Hmmmmm

Have a look at the samba stuff here

http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/index.html

L8rs

RecoilUK

setup the user account in the box


adduser unixuser

then password it

passwd unixuser

then add to samba

smbadduser smbuser:unixuser


now setup windows networking to login as smbuser when you start windows or you will be prompted for passwd. In win2k you will be prompted for username and passwd but in win98 it will only ask for passwd, so if your microsoft networking username does not match smbuser you can't get in.

Are the Windows machines on a domain? If so, you may consider joining the linux box to the domain like so

smbpasswd -r domaincontroller -j domain


hope this helps,

graystarr

And you need encrypt passwords=yes in your smb.conf, or you'll have to hack the reg of all your windozers.