Samba and XP machines

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 18:27 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> Hey, no expert here on Samba but I know that the user name and
> password must be the same on both windows and linux machines.

This is not true.

>   Also the workgroup name must be the same on both machines.

I think (but do not know) that this is also not true.

>  If you don't know that they are then check to see what they are on
> both machines and make them the same as needed.

That's a good plan anyway, though, because then you are not juggling
different passwords. However, it's not actually required.

>   The folders must be shared also, I think in both smb.conf and on you
> ubuntu machine.

More specifically: smb.conf is needed so that Samba knows to make the
shares available. The directories involved must then have permissions
that allow samba to share them *successfully*.

For example if you are logging in to Samba as "fred", any shares "fred"
mounts need to be readable and/or writable by the user "fred".

Regards, K.

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