I am writing my smbd.conf file from scratch, getting it working piece by piece (not enough RAM in the system to run X, so i don't have swat)

I have "security=user" in the smbd.conf file.

I am trying to connect from a laptop running XP Pro.

Questions:
1. That means that I should be able to open the system remotely using the same user/password combos as I use to log onto the machine directly???

2. When I try to connect through XP Pro, I enter the account name and password, and it fails to connect. But the window pops back up with the laptop name as part of the username. (ie. I enter "matt" for the username, and after failing the window comes back with "WEASEL\matt".). Is this significant?

Tanx

Make sure you add samba accounts with "smbadduser".

to go more indepth do the following


smbpasswd -a (username, this username must already be a user on the linux box) [this sets the user's passwords]

then

smbpasswd -e (username) [this enables the user]

to add a user to the system:

useradd (username)


hope this helped

thanks! working pretty good now!