On Sunday 14 January 2007 13:44, Craig White wrote: >On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 20:48 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 13 January 2007 16:12, Craig White wrote: >> [...] >> >> >---- >> >If you are speaking of password entries in /etc/samba/smbpasswd, >> > those are the already hashed password using standard Windows NT hash >> > algorithm. >> > >> >If you want to set a password for say, user gene... >> > >> >smbpasswd gene >> >(it prompts you to enter a password) >> > >> >this is then 'hashed' and written to /etc/samba/smbpasswd >> > >> >Craig >> >> Thanks Craig. >> >> I added gene to smbusers, which looked ok, and I hoped that would stop >> smbpasswd from complaining about a non-existent user, but it didn't. >> >> And it still won't set a passwd hash into the smbpasswd file which is >> currently 0600 and owned by root, and zero bytes long. And I was >> doing that as root of course... > >---- >a samba user - say 'gene' must also be a Linux user too. gene is, albeit not a frequent login, usually via su. >there are many different password db systems that can be used for samba >but /etc/samba/smbpasswd is the default if not specified otherwise. You >may wish to check what you have set in smb.conf > ># testparm -sv |grep passdb Interesting Craig. After processing 3 sections, no errors shown, Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE passdb backend = smbpasswd passdb expand explicit = no But I'm not 100% sure what that's trying to tell me. >by default, perms on smb.conf are 644 ># ls -l /etc/samba/smb.conf >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4210 Feb 1 >2005 /etc/samba/smb.conf And so is lmhosts & smbusers here. Everything else is 0600. >Official Samba documentation is here... > >http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ I'll check that out, thanks. > >Craig 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.
