try smbpasswd -a and also set your workgroup name in the samba.conf On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, David Mascot wrote: > Hi, > You all probably new I would soon be back...anyhow I got Samba running > and I can see it on my three Windows machines as "localhost". > When I try to launch "localhost" from the two Win98 machines a password > box pops up with \\localhost\ipc$\. When I type the password it says > not correct. When I try launching "localhost" from the Win2k Pro > machine a message says, "\\localhost is not accessable, a duplicate name > exists on the network". > I configured Samba from the directions at > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/s1-samba-configuring.html > I did the: > cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh > /etc/samba/smbpasswd > And the: > chmod 600 /etc/samba/smbpasswd > But when I tried to do the: > smbpasswd username > I type a username (miyuki) and then the password, and then I re-type the > password but then I get a message that says: > "failed to modify password entry for user miyuki" > I get the same results with my other two users also. > All three users were also placed into the smb.conf file. > Thanks again for you fine help > Dave > > > > > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
