[ILUG] Joining a workgroup with Redhat 7

[Wynne, Conor]

First you must have unix users, 
so useradd is yer man.

eg: useradd cw (me that is)
passwd cw
then you must add the users to the /etc/samba/smbusers (default in RH7) 
so type : 
smbpasswd -a cw

There ya go. Basic I know but enough to test. 
Use encrypyted passwords!!!! and also synchronise with unix passwords, else
its a pain to edit the registries on the win machines - and clear text
passwords is a no no. 

The default smb.conf has some shares predefined, all you have to do is
uncomment them and make sure the directories exist.
Check out o'reilly samba book online - somewhere. I liked it so much that I
bought it. Good stuff. 

http://us1.samba.org/samba/oreilly/using_samba/

You may use /tmp just to test. 
I normally use swat afterwards coz it's soooo easy, and its web based. 

Regards,
CW


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The only other problem i seem to have is setting up shares and users on
Samba! the how-tos seem cover everything except the simple tasks.

Thanks Again.