[Samba] newbie needs direction

John Benedetto
2002-02-02T16:18:03Z

--On Saturday, February 02, 2002 12:59 PM -0800 Ray Tayek
<rtayek@mediaone.net> wrote:

> i have the same user with the same password on both boxen. do i need to
> make smbpasswords?

Yes. After you have a user created in the passwd file (& disabled them, if
you don't want them to have shell access to the server -- which is how we
have done ours), you must run
smbpasswd -a username
to add them to the smbpasswd file.

- john