On Saturday 13 January 2007 12:27, Craig White wrote: >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 It does exist in that file & I don't recall ever editing it. Thanks Craig. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
