[CVALE] Samba and XP

Matt R Hall mhall at mhcomputing.net
Thu Oct 26 09:20:09 PDT 2006


On 10/26/06, Ian Sterling <xyverz at gmail.com> wrote:
> And one last question to ask you is: have you enabled an account on
> the samba server to connect to?  `smbpasswd -a username` is the
> command to add a user to the samba server db.  (although I guess
> Matt's suggestion may work too.)

You're right. I tend to get a bit terse sometimes because I work 55
hours a week at HP and I don't always completely remember the syntax
of commands when I suggest them. I don't think it works right without
the '-a' option. Thanks for pointing it out for clarity's sake.

> --Ian
Matt



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