on 3-26-2008 12:11 PM Ray Leventhal spake the following: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> Ray Leventhal wrote: >>> >>> >> >> Normally you have to add the users yourself with their passwords since >> the encryption is different than the linux passwd file uses and it can >> only be done when you still have the plaintext. >> smbpasswd -a login_name >> But didn't you say you used webmin with this enabled? > yes, I did and have verified that users are already there and 'the same' > in webmin terms. >> >> If the users are already in a windows domain you can just use security >> = server and password server = your_domain_controller. > I am not using a PDC in the network, only clients on WinXP and the Cent > OS machine. >> >> By the way, if you are setting up a new box from scratch just to serve >> windows users you might like SME server (http://www.contribs.org). It >> is based on Centos but all administration is through a simple web >> interface. >> >> > As Cent is already built, I'm inclined to keep it. > > Any idea why I can't seem to browse in anything other than 'share' mode? > The user mode keeps popping up an authentication box for which there > seems not to be a correct answer...meaning I re-auth, but I keep getting > the box, with <MACHINE>/ prepended to my username. > > Thanks, > -Ray DO the user credentials on the windows boxes match the credentials on the samba box? Did you turn off simple filesharing on the XP machines? -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080326/099a3dac/attachment-0004.sig>