On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:50:34 -0700 "Brian W. Carver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My problem now that swat is working is that I don't understand samba > users and passwords versus other usernames and passwords. For > example, I can now see the debian machine from my windows machines, > but if I try to access it, then it asks for a password (not allowing > me to choose a username) and none of the passwords that I've set up in > swat will work. Also, it seems you cannot have a samba user unless > there is first such a user on your debian machine. But I'm the one > who uses all those computers, so why should I have to create myself > several different accounts?
The Woody system I set up at the school I work in is acting as a PDC on a network composed of 8 Windows 2000 machines, serving shares, printers and roaming profiles for the users. I did have to create a unix account for each user so authentication would work, but I think in your case using the guest account and "guest ok" options where appropriate in the smb.conf file would do the trick. I didn't use swat, though, just plain old vi... Another way to go for you would perhaps be to set security to "share" instead of "user", though I wouldn't go that way. > Also, as far as I can tell the printer still doesn't work from the > debian machine it is itself connected to, but I fear to try since last > time it ran through blank pages non-stop until I pulled the plug. > (Plus, so far as I know I haven't done anything that should make it > work yet.) Not sure what you mean here. Are you trying to print from a Windows machine and not succeeding? I had this problem because my printing system (lprng) didn't accept jobs from non-existent users, so it was solved when all users were added to the passwd file. The print jobs are sent as-is to the printer because Windows already uses the appropriate drivers, so no printtool or other filters are required. Hope I got you right. Good luck. -- Carlos Sousa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
