Re: Samba is doing a dance on me

From: Rob (rsteinmetz@mindspring.com)
Date: 04/21/03

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    From: Rob <rsteinmetz@mindspring.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 22:36:29 GMT

    Jack Hill, Just reading the News wrote:
    >
    > The SAMBA files are in "/etc/samba.d" which is where the install placed
    > them, and I have run "smbpasswd -a {username}" for all users, including "root"
    >

    Have you set the smbpasswd with smbpasswd {username} password ? 

    -- 
Rob
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by 
stupidity"
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