From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Mar 28 1:12:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A37037B719 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 01:12:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Received: from moritz.alleswirdgelber (ascend-tk-p134.dialin.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.134]) by f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA624026 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:12:10 +0200 Received: from localhost (uzs106@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moritz.alleswirdgelber (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA00341 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:06:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:06:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@moritz.alleswirdgelber To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Samba basics ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Currently, I have installed samba on an old Indy, Win98 and our dear and > noble OS on the PC. The tricky part of it was the windoze side. You have to create users and to disable WINS, but I am not shure ;-) One thing I dont fully understand is what are the pros and cons against passwords ? The samba password should be different from the unix password, since it is less secure. And unix home accounts shouldnt be used with samba ? H. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message