-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 2:28 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Samba config for Windows on VMWare
security=SHARE is for old school win95 networks, with global passwords on each share, I'd avoid that entirely.
use `security=USER`, then read up on smbpasswd. create linux user accounts for each Windows user (same username as they log onto Windows with), then use smbpasswd to set their Samba password to match their Windows login password. Samba can't use their Linux password as SMB networking and Linux use completely different password hashes.
Okay, but (I had to have a but in there), I did not set up the Windows account, and it has a space, and a hyphen, in it (Mark Hull-Richter). Does that work on Linux, or should I go to the trouble of making a new Windows account with a simple name, transferring all the settings and files and so on, etc.?