On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:18:36 -0400, Mark Hull-Richter wrote: >> -----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.? In Windows 2000 and XP, you would be able to "connect as". In other words, you can specify the username and its password that are known to samba when making a connection. As suggested in the above message, do a smbpasswd -a <username> as root to set up the passwd on the samba server. Akemi