On Fri, 21 Nov 1997 15:55:58 +1100, you wrote:
>1) From reading the smb.conf man page, it looks as though it is possible to
>change the Samba password from a 95/NT client. I went to the password icon
in
>the control panel but there wasn't any way to change the Samba password.
How
>is this done?
>
try typing 'net help password' in a DOS box>
>2) Again, from reading the documentation it looks as though it is possible
to
>make Samba part of more than 1 workgroup. How do you do this?
>
If it says this anywhere in the documentation then the documentation is
WRONG, there was a test release of 1.9.16 that did it, however currently
samba cannot be part of more than one workgroup.
>
>3) Is is possible to do the % substitutions in service names? We arrange
our
>systems so the PC home directory is a directory called unix_pc in the
user's
>home dir. The [home] service is nice and can do the Unix part, but I would
>like to be able to do something like [%uPC] so you'd have shares in the
browse
>like that look like
>fred Fred's Unix directory (~)
>fredpc Fred's PC Unix directory (~/unix_pc)
>Is this possible?
>
Yes you can, although I believe you may have to use %U instead of %u for
the substitution.