[Cialug] Re: Samba Passwords

[dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

NOC <noc@kulish.com> said:

> I remember getting an email on this, but I'll be damned if I can 
find it.  I
> am trying to setup a Samba server that will be accessed my WinX 
clients.  I
> remember that there was a utility to setup the password (because of 
the
> encryption), could someone send it my way again?  ( I think it was 
DaveW
> that replied to this the first time)...

I've done it the hard way before... now I do it with webmin. It's so 
easy, even CK could handle it! ;) Try http://www.webmin.com. There's 
also a samba config utility called "swat", with is included in the 
samba RPM, don't know if it's in your nifty suse package.

One trick to getting samba working for Win98 or NT clients, you need 
to enable the "encrypt passwords" thing.

Password related utils for Samba include:
/usr/bin/addtosmbpass
/usr/bin/convert_smbpasswd
/usr/bin/mksmbpasswd.sh
/usr/bin/smbadduser
/usr/bin/smbpasswd
/usr/bin/smbstatus

Now I just need to figure out why smb doesn't start up on my new 
server when it boots, even tho' the init.d scripts are there.

-dc