Re: [Sheflug] Re: Finally cracked networking with samba

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:42:03AM +0100, Sammy wrote:
> > In the top of the globals section you need to put "encrypted 
> > passwords = yes".   Then you need to add a user to the Samba 
> > application.  You can do that by doing 'smbpasswd -a sammy'  or 
> > whatever user name you want to use.  It'll ask you for a password.  
> > So, use whatever you want to use in there.
> 
> I try smbpasswd -a david
> it then user david not found in symtem password file 

	From the man page:
		Note that the user to be added  must  already
              exist   in   the   system  password  file  (usually
              /etc/passwd) else the request to add the user  will
              fail.


	i.e., david must have an account in the samba box.
> it work fine for smbpassd -a sammy
> please any advice

	Presumably sammy does have an account.

> i need to reset this all up i cannot remember the passwords for thecomputer
> 
> is there any file that will tell me the login and password?

	I'm not sure of it, but if it's for a home network, why not have
everything public? Unless your brother's taste in music is as unpopular
as mine :-) (oh, well, and remember you're using a derivative of UNIX,
so you have to 
#define PARANOID 1
and you all that, so usual disclaimer).

> how do i get 
> samba to boot up whaen i boot the linux box up?

	The samba daemons (nmbd and smbd are usually activated through
init. In other words, check your /etc/rcX.d directories. (if you're
using debian, other distros will keep things somewhere else).

> and can anyone explain gate ways  hmmm is it something to  do will ip number 
> between my mnodem and the server modem on the internet?

	You want IP Masquerading if you're using dial-up because you
connect to your ISP and they will only give you a single IP address.
This is fine for a computer, but it would be nice to share the modem
connection. To do this, you just use the linux box as a gateway (sorry,
lazy today). The IP-Masquerade HOWTO is quite good (beg to differ
Richard). The abstract says:
  This document describes how to enable the Linux IP Masquerade feature
  on a given Linux host.  IP Masq is a form of Network Address Transla­
  tion or NAT that allows internally connected computers that do not
  have one or more registered Internet IP addresses to have the ability
  to communicate to the Internet via your Linux box's single Internet IP
  address.

	Best luck
	José

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