Samba?

[Andrew Rokitka]

for the record, for win2k and NT, it's


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanworkstation\parameters]
"enableplaintextpassword"=dword:00000001


--- Darin Perusich <darinper at cognigencorp.com> wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>--
> >>This message has been scanned for viruses and
> >>dangerous content by Dynabrade using Mailscanner,
> >>and is believed to be clean.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Darin Perusich
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Cognigen Corp.
> darinper at cognigencorp.com
> 
> 


__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site
http://webhosting.yahoo.com/