> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at 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.?