Fwd: More Samba questions...
robert mckennon <[email protected]>
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forgot to reply to all.... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: robert mckennon <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:30 PM Subject: Re: More Samba questions... To: Paul Spicer <[email protected]> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Paul Spicer <[email protected]> wrote: > I know you guys are probably getting tired of me and my Samba issues, but I > really appreciate you all bearing with me... > > First, a couple questions about how Samba stores users... How does this > work? It's my understanding that Samba users are stored in the smbpasswd > file. However, I've run into a situation where a user exists in that file, > but I'm unable to connect to shares with this user nor can I change the > password (smbpasswd user) until I first run `smbpasswd -a user`. (This > changes nothing in the smbpasswd file, leading me to believe the "allowed > users" is kept elsewhere, but I'll be darned if I can find where.) > In the /etc/samba/ directory is a file called secrets.tdb. this is where the actual passwords are stored. (kinda like the /etc/shadow file, but in a data-base form). > On to the next issue; connecting to shares. Using the newly added smb user, > I am able to connect to shares from WINDOWS machines only. If I try to > connect to the Samba server using the same username/password credentials in > Ubuntu, I get stuck in a loop where it keeps asking for the password and > never accepting it. (Ultimately, I cancel and it throws an error about not > being able to display the contents.) From this same Ubuntu box, I AM able > to connect to shares on WINDOWS machines without a problem. It's only when > I try to connect to Samba shares on linux machines does it fail. > > Can anyone tell me what I might be doing wrong in either situation? > Can you post the command you are using from linux to connect to the samba share, and the errors? Rob. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]