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When the world was young, Eric Melville carved some runes like this: > From: Eric Melville <m_thrope@rigelnet.ml.org> > Subject: passwords > > could someone please give me the lowdown on samba and passwords? i keep > trying to connect to any share name on either of my unix boxes, either > from each other or from a win95 machine... every time i can't get anything > due to passwords...

this may be a remedial question, but uh, what's /etc/lmhosts supposed to be? smbclient always complains that it doesn't exist... should it? thanks... -E

could someone please give me the lowdown on samba and passwords? i keep trying to connect to any share name on either of my unix boxes, either from each other or from a win95 machine... every time i can't get anything due to passwords... does samba have it's own password file? from trial-and-error it seems that it doesn't read out your /etc/passwd file for user's home dirs...