Samba user authentication

[Rick Sivernell]

On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:37:21 -0500
"David Bandel" <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/2/07, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 02, 2007, David Bandel wrote:
> > >On 7/1/07, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> What we do on our RH3/4 systems (a little different that your needs):
> > >>
> > >> 1. Setup samba.conf with linux userid as share name and directry for
> > >> share /home/<userid>
> > >>
> > >> 2. Logged in on Linux as root
> > >>
> > >> smbpasswd -a <userid>
> > >>
> > >> 3. On windows system (WinXP), from an explorer window, select Tools ->
> > >> Map Network Drive
> > >>
> > >> 4. Pick a letter
> > >>
> > >> 5. Check 'reconnect at boot'
> > >>
> > >> 6. Click on 'use a different id'
> > >>
> > >> 7. enter the Linux <userid> and the password created by smbpasswd
> > >>
> > >> Number 6 above is critical, since Windows defaults to using the Windows <usrid>.
> > >>
> > >
> > >Thanx.  That did it.  Just seems counterintuitive to have to use
> > >smbpasswd when what I wanted was for samba to use pam and the normal
> > >login files.
> >
> > Using Windows is counterintuitive!
> >
> > It isn't Samba that has problems here, but Windows.  While there
> > were ways to use pure Samba/Unix authentication that worked
> > reasonably well with earlier versions of Windows which requires
> > some registry hacks, the use has been deprecated for years.
> >
> 
> And what did you expect?  It's windoze lusers that use samba!
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> David A. Bandel


What do you do when your Linux box can view, read and write to M$ 
but M$ can not even find Linux.

Rick