David Clymer said: > Please remember to reply to the list, not to the individual. I > will reply on-list so that everyone can (hopefully) benefit > from our exchange.
Sorry about that. > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 08:42 -0500, Josh Battles wrote: >> David Clymer said: >> >> > When you say that you can't log on, do you mean that your >> > username/password is rejected, or that you just dont see any shared >> > folders? What error messages are you getting on the clients when they >> > attempt to "log on"? >> >> My username and password is rejected. My Debian desktop picked up almost >> instantly a folder called "shared on beer" (beer is the server hostname) >> and >> popped it on the desktop when I booted. I'm able to see that same folder >> in >> Win2k but not access it from either OS. > > For each computer (NT,2k,XP) that logs on to your domain, you will need to > have set up a trust account: > > $ adduser --home /dev/null --shell /bin/false --ingroup machine > --force-badname --no-create-home --disabled-login --gecos "Machine Trust > Account" MYCOMPUTER$ > $ smbpasswd -m -a MYCOMPUTER So, if I'm going to add a user called "cletusjones" to my box called "beer" it would go something like this: adduser cletusjones --home /dev/null --shell /bin/false --ingroup machine --force-badname --no-create-home --disables-login --gecos "Machine Trust Account" BEER and: smbpasswd ****** -m -a BEER correct? > for each user that logs on or accesses shares, you need to have a unix and > samba account: > > $ adduser --shell /bin/false --disabled-login userbob > $ gpasswd -a userbob samba > $ smbpasswd -a userbob For these statements, I'm replacing "userbob" with my usernames and that should just be it, yes? -- - Josh www.omg-stfu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]