Default SMB.CONF?, Ubuntuguide Confusion?

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jul 27 02:59:25 UTC 2007


On 07/26/2007 07:48 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
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> 
> system_username = "network username"
> 
>     *
> The above command really blows my mind. I've really
> never seen the smbusers file empty but tried the
> gksudo gedit commands and the file was populated just
> as using nano. but what's really baffling me is the
> line:
> system_username = "network username"
> They are the same aren't they????  Why all the geek
> kyrpto crap. If an example was given in these cases it
> wouldn't be so bad. Other places in the guide had
> examples.  Why don't it just say add 'username" and
> stop confusing the newbies or am I missing something.
> Some clarification plese so I can continue starting
> over with Samba.
> Thanks for some enlightenment,

That is *exactly* what you put in the file. Nothing else, only:

system_username = "network username"









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