Use the "smbpasswd -a username" to setup a new user password. But
without your setup and how you did it and what is going on in the logs it is
hard to answer this question, it is very broad. There are great and wonderful
documents to learn all about SAMBA and how to set it up.
(Thank you to everyone that created those works of art. 'sniff, sniff'
Beautiful they are. Got me everywhere.)
See the link:
http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/
Also there are these archives to search too. Cheers.
Karl-
>> Hi I have installed samba 2.2.8 on a box running Fresco as a router
and
>> Web server. On my Win2000 box I can see the router but when I try to
get
>> in and access the shared files it asks for a password I don't know
what
>> it is I never set that up. What password does it come with by default?
>> I ran the command smbpasswd and get the following msg
>> Failed to find entry for user Root
>> Failed to modify password entry for user Root
>> Can anyone pleas help?
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