[techtalk] samba help

[Julie]

From: Paul Hardacre <paul.hardacre at btinternet.com>
> At 16:15 31/05/2001, Julie wrote:
>
> >From: Paul Hardacre <paul.hardacre at btinternet.com>
> > > One thing to check with Windows connecting to samba is that it uses
the
> > > username from the Client for Microsoft Networks. This one's caught me
out
> >a
> > > few times. There's a file in /etc/samba that you can use to map samba
> >users
> > > to unix users (if you're using the unix passwd file or possibly PAM to
> > > authenticate samba users), or you can go down the route of using an
> > > smbpasswd file, or using a PDC to authenticate users. The mapping file
is
> > > /etc/samba/smbusers, they're in the format "unix_user = samba_user1
> > > samba_user2 samba_userx"
> >
> >I found that it's apparently not using the /etc/samba/smbusers
> >file.  I had an entry "jfh = julie".  My Win98 machine was sending
> >"julie" to my Linux box and Samba insisted that "julie" didn't
> >exist.  I finally created a "julie" user and set its password with
> >smbpasswd.
> >
> >So ... what's wrong with the smbusers file?  This is RedHat 7.1
> >incase anyone cares.
>
> Hmmm.. I'm running RH7.1 here too on my box on my desk that I'm connected
> to.. Could be the encrypted password problem that Kent mentioned. I don't
> recall whether encrypted passwords was enabled or not.. If it was I'd have
> instantly disabled it on this box cos I connect from Win95 and I don't
> wanna fiddle with it cos it works (for the moment). Not too bothered about
> security on this box since it's on a private net anyways. But encrypted
> passwords in the smb.conf would be something worth checking.

It's not an invalid password, the error message is

"couldn't find user 'julie' in smb_passwd file"

There was no user "julie", but I did have an entry

jfh = julie

in the smbusers file.

-- Julie.