[plug] Samba

[Michael Hunt]

> The problem I had with joe blow access to the Samba server shares
> was simply
> that I hadn't un-commented the line "username map =
> /etc/samba/smbusers" in
> smb.conf, which points to the file I had carefully crafted for our users.
> Doh!
>
> I found a reference to this in some online Mandrake documentation.
>
> Judging from the lack of response to the query, not many people use Samba.
> Yet most of us admit to having a Windows machine or two on the
> home network.
> <flamebait> What - does everyone use a more sophisticated
> solution like .Net
> these days? </flamebait>

<flamebait_accepted>

No we are all just beta testing Samba 3.0 so that our networks can be Active
Directory compliant !!!!

On the other hand we might have thought that uncommenting the entry in
smb.conf was a bit obvious *grin*

</flamebait_accepted>

Michael Hunt