Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:19:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> To: CNNet <cnnet@cnnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Samba Help Message-ID: <13760.27539.302738.536160@neuron.webmore.de> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980729180150.00808830@cnnet.com> References: <3.0.5.32.19980729180150.00808830@cnnet.com>
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CNNet writes: > Hi could someone please help us in setting up Samba? > > We have the server software installed and it is up and running the trouble > we are have is with the smb.conf file > > We can see the share but when we click on it it asks for a password and > that is as far as we can get. > > We have win 95 clients trying to access this server. > > How do we add users so that they can access the share do we add them to > Unix ie with the adduser command and then give them permissions I am confused. > > If someone out there has step by step instructions this would be > appreciated, as well as an example smb.conf file There are tons of documentation for samba. Even in the ports-tarball. Have a look into the doc-directory. Read "man 5 smb.conf". As a hint, have a special look at the following keywords in "man 5 smb.conf": guest account = Give it the username of an unprivileged user security = share security = user will always ask for passwords public = yes in the shares you want to be publicly available Malte. > > > Thanks Jason > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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