Re: Samba : public / user acces and password questions

From: notbob (notbob_at_nothome.com)
Date: 03/25/05


Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:43:15 -0600

On 2005-03-25, tibo <bartol_78SPAMSUXXX@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 2) Say my aministrator account name on WinXP is toto. This account on WinXP
> has no password. Is it possible to get access to user toto share on Samba
> server with no password defined on WinXP ? (doesn't seem...)

http://kadaitcha.cx/passwords.html

You also need to create a smbpasswd for toto in linux.

man smbpasswd

nb



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