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From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>
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To: Prasad.Chemburkar@Vashimail.ltitl.com
Subject: Re: Regarding SAMBA
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:05:08 -0900
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You need to create a directory "private" in your Samba directory. Inside the 
private directory put a text file named "smbpasswd" . You might also want to 
look into swat. It's an HTML interface for Samba that does a good job of 
share and user management. Swat is included with Samba.



On Wednesday 10 January 2001 23:31, you wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have configured samba on my FreeBSD 3.0 server and had started nmbd and
> smbd deamons in deamon mode. when i browse through Windows 98 machine for
> FreeBSD server name with IP address it prompts password. when i type any
> password it gives me password incorrect.
> i am confused as of which password to use, i tried changing password of
> guest user on FreeBSD with smbpasswd command but it fails to change it. my
> /etc/smb.conf has this options set
>
> ;[public]
>    path = /usr/home/newuser
>    public = yes
>    only guest = yes
>    writable = yes
>    printable = no
>
>
> thanks in advance
> prasad
>
>
>
>
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