Samba?

[Darin Perusich]

the registry entry is.

--BEGIN--
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP]
"EnablePlainTextPassword"=dword:00000001
--END--

if you get SysAdmin magazine they have an article about replacing IIS 
and sql server with linux, samba, and mysql. within the article the 
samba config section talks about using the "add user script =" to add a 
local account to the system, this way you don't have to manually added 
each user by hand.

there example:
add user script = useradd -c "Account from PDC" -s /bin/false \
	-d /path/to/home/%u -m -n -g some_group %u

Justin Bennett wrote:
> Have you downloaded samba and have it installed? You'll need to setup the
> smb.conf file with the shares you want, pretty straight forward. There are
> examples in the smb.conf file. You can force file permissions like 664 or
> 660 if it is a group directory. All the users that you want to connect
> must be users on the machine. If you want to do encrypted passwords you
> will need to turn it on in the smb.conf file, and then create an
> smbpassword file with each users password in it (cuz MS encryption is not
> the same as unix encryption).
> 
> You do this by:
> smbpasswd -a user
> 
> If you don't want to use encrypted password, it should be an issue
> especially in a switched network, you don't need to create users in
> smbpasswd file, it can use the standard unix password file. However if you
> do this you'll need to run registry entries on the client boxes if they
> are (98 or above), or NT sp3 or above. For 5 users it's probably easy
> enough to add then using smbpasswd -a.
> 
> I'll see if I can find on online guide and post the URL.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>I have decided to start samba on our SCO machine, can anyone tell me if
>>there are any potential obstacles I may encounter that I should watch
>>out  for? All I need is to get the 5 people in accounting connected to
>>this thing.
>>
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Chet
>>
>>
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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com