Re: Adding new users to Samba

Ian Firla <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.seawolf
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It should just be:

smbpasswd -a $username $passwd

Ian


------------
Dr Ian Firla
Robert Graves Trust		| "A partial count of the software available
St John's College, Oxford       | in just one noncommerical Linux system
OX1 3JP - +44-(0)7855-310565	| would have cost about $1.9 billion to develop
http://www.robertgraves.org	| ... the way Microsoft does it" Bruce Perens


On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Jason Dale wrote:

> Hi all :
>
> A quick question this time :
>
> The scenario : A few windows workstations connected over the LAN
> to a Red Hat Linux 7 machine running Samba. This setup was configured
> by soneone else , not me. The existing users can access the Linux
> machine as though it was a Windows file server.
>
> I have just created 2 new users on the Linux server
>
> Question : How do I go about giving these 2 new users access to the Samba
>                   services , so that they can browse the Linux file server from
>                   Windows as well ?
>
>
>
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.