Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > frankly samba is a mature and stable package. It should work. Perhaps > the OP's efforts are better directed at figuring out what is going wrong with > samba.
Yes, that was the conclusion I came to (I'm the OP) as well and have now gotten it working. It was a simple matter of redoing the passwords with smbpasswd after and update. Didn't seem so simple at first since it had been working with no worries for mnths then suddenly no workee. However I would add that samba is a very complex program. Chances are good it will just work with little fiddling but if it doesn't it appears a giant undertaking to understand and debug it. (For a common numbskull at any rate) In my case, fortunately I didn't have to. Because as you pointed out, it is stable and mostly just works. I just happend to think of redoing the passwds and didn't really get even as far as going thru the gentoo howto on samba or even looking thru man pages. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
