Re: [SLE] Samba setup [A LITTLE WEIRD]

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

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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.

    This time all I did was power everything down, start it all up again, shut
    my eyes and take another swig. Everything seems to be working.

    >Any ideas?

    No idea but ... hey :)

    Mike

    >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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