[plug] Just a point in the right area

[David Broadway]

Arh, thats great.

I know win9x had differece to 2k/xp in the way passwords where used. now I 
see and under stand a little more they my win95 machine works, but not 2k/xp 
:)

Thanks, do you guys ever meet up or anything?

David
2nd msg to plug :)


>Hi David,
>
>Answers below:
>
> >
> > 1. I've got SAMBA up and running and sharing the unix home directories 
>to
> > who logs on with a windows machine. but I've found some weird probems.
> >
> > I login as eg. David on windows, and under my samba box I see a share 
>for
> > 'david' (the home dir on the unix box) now under windows win95 I double
> > click it to access it, and it comes up with a 'enter the password in for
> > that share' even tho my windows/unix passwd is the same. I just enter it
>in,
> > and it goes in. (should have to do tho?
> > But then accessing the same thing using w2k/xp its a little different.
> > I get on w2k, a enter user/pass box, on win95 its just a passwd box.
> > and on the xp machine I get a login box, but I can't change the 
>username,
> > its preset to SERVERNAME/Guest but I can enter a passwd. I'm guessing 
>that
> > only sending the SERVERNAME/Guest (password to the unix/samba box)?
>
>There are differences between authentication on Win95 and 2K/XP machines in
>regards to Samba.  To use 2K/XP you have to use encrypted passwords which
>uses a separate password file from the Unix system password (see 
>smbpasswd).
>With Win95, yes it will only allow you to use a password to access the
>shared resource, using the username of the user currently logged onto the
>Win95 machine.  I know that with XP you have to change something in the
>registry to get it to authenticate against a Samba server properly, I don't
>know whether this is the case with Win2K or not as I haven't tried 2K with
>Samba, but in XP open up regedit and do a search for "requiresignorseal" 
>and
>set any instances of it that you find to "0", there should be 4 instances 
>of
>it (the first one is a folder, disregard that one).
>
>BTW, I'm assuming you're using XP Pro and not Home Edition...
>
> > 2. The other thing is I wouldn't mind learning about setting up DHCPd,
>DNS,
> > and gateway so the unix box can be the gateway machine to the internet.
> > (like internet sharing on windows2k/xp, wingate setups!)
> >
>
>For DHCP, I would suggest reading:
>http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/mini/DHCP/
>
>For DNS (with Bind):  http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/DNS-HOWTO-1.html 
>(some
>changes need to be made for Bind 9.x though)
>
>And in regards to sharing your internet connection on your Linux box, if
>you're using a 2.2 kernel, see ipchains:
>
>http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/DNS-HOWTO-1.html
>
>.. or if you're using a 2.4 kernel, read the iptables man page (man
>iptables).
>
>BTW, Google is your friend :).
>
>HTH :)
>
>
>/ Ben
>
>p.s. Welcome to PLUG :)
>




Regards,
David Broadway

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