On Thursday 24 March 2005 19:01, Mark Nixon wrote: > Thanks. Now, from my wife's computer, I'm asked for a password, but the > password I set up isn't recognized. I've been messing around, and I've > probably messed something very basic up. good, some progress then? okay, as someone else has already mentioned, normal user passwords (ie your login passwords) are not used by samba - you'll need to add your users to *samba's* password database before they can authenticate. for example: smbpasswd -a stuart will prompt for a password for the (already existing) user stuart and add him (and his new password) to the samba db. This can be the same as the normal login password, but it doesn't have to be. once you have done this you should be able to authenticate as stuart from the windows boxen... Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX, RTFM, ASAP Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy.
