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1.1 Starting samba and setting up user accounts
Let us fire up samba for the first time. Type:
There shouldn't be any errors - if you are presented with an error message make sure everything is correct (search for typos and/or invalid paths).
Time to add yourself as an samba user.
NOTE: You will be asked for a password - make sure you use the same as you use for login!
In case you need other users to be able to access the share you need to add them to your system AND samba as well. Make sure you use the very same Windows usernames and passwords!
NOTE: Windows XP doesn't set passwords for its useraccount per default. If you haven't set a password on your XP box just press enter when prompted to enter a password for the user account you're about to create!
In the following example we will add an user called "mark" ...
Example:
The "-s /bin/true" in the first line prevents the users from being able to access the commandline of your linux box ("-s" stands for "shell"). I strongly advise you to follow this recommendation! Don't change that setting to a valid login-shell unless you really know what you are doing!
Repeat this step until you configured all user accounts!
Now that we configured samba and created the user accounts we are done with the Linux-part - there's one more thing to do in Windows.
1.1 Starting samba and setting up user accounts
Let us fire up samba for the first time. Type:
Code:
sudo /etc/init.d/samba start
Time to add yourself as an samba user.
NOTE: You will be asked for a password - make sure you use the same as you use for login!
Code:
sudo smbpasswd -L -a your_username
sudo smbpasswd -L -e your_username
NOTE: Windows XP doesn't set passwords for its useraccount per default. If you haven't set a password on your XP box just press enter when prompted to enter a password for the user account you're about to create!
In the following example we will add an user called "mark" ...
Example:
Code:
sudo useradd -s /bin/true mark
sudo smbpasswd -L -a mark
sudo smbpasswd -L -e mark
Repeat this step until you configured all user accounts!
Now that we configured samba and created the user accounts we are done with the Linux-part - there's one more thing to do in Windows.
