On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 06:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > I'm trying to setup a samba share on my lappy, and have run into a large > problem, large because my root password is 19 chars long. > > An attempt to bring up the share gets this error printed on the cli: > > password too long > > As I can't seem to grep for it, in what file can the allowable samba|cifs > password length be set? ---- samba conforms to windows standards for obvious reasons - there is no place where this can be changed without re-compiling samba. root password like all other samba passwords is set with smbpasswd command and has nothing to do with Linux/UNIX passwords. Not that this admonition is going to do much good but root is generally not a samba user but is typically mapped if needed in smbusers Craig
