Re: [SLE] Samba setup [WEIRD]

From: Mike Dewhirst (miked_at_dewhirst.com.au)
Date: 02/26/05

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    Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:57:15 +1100
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    >David
    >At 05:15 pm 26/02/2005, david rankin wrote:
    >> it is a piece of cake.
    >
    >I'm finding it a piece of rock-cake. My brain is bruised.

    It suddenly started working - I swear didn't do anything. I can net use OK
    from both Windows and I have a new read/write drive S: but still can't log
    in to Linux due to a password field which seems to have zero length.

    Any ideas?

    Mike

    >>My office has run on it since 2000. Just like anything else, you have to
    >>make friends with it, but it is relatively painless.
    >
    >Maybe I need a chemical enhancer - a stiff single malt or three :(
    >
    >>After you set it up, it is bulletproof.
    >
    >That will keep me going :)
    >
    >>See www.samba.org for docs and setup. No magic, just follow the steps........
    >
    >OK - I can see the samba server from both my Win XP machines and I can see
    >both Win XP machines from SuSE. BUT none of them let me login anywhere.
    >They all put up a login prompt OK - but all of them deny access.
    >
    >I did create a new user mdewhirst on every machine including the Novell
    >server and all have the same password - different than root on SuSE.
    >
    >I just restarted my SuSE box to see if that would help and now it won't
    >let me put in a password. So I'm stumped.
    >
    >I can tab the cursor into the password field for either root or mdewhirst
    >but it won't accept any password characters.
    >
    >Any ideas?
    >
    >Apart from looking for a bottle .... yet
    >
    >TIA
    >
    >Mike 

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