Connecting Amiga to Win2k Machine with Samba... Confused!!

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@ Jumpship:

;-) One thing to watch for when running Samba over Genesis: make sure that Genesis is running as root instead of as user.  This is because one of the Samba demons (smbd) requires an effective user ID of zero in order to run.  Just alter Genesis' password file to move the root login to the top, and it will be run as the default.

This may be on 'http://www.amigasamba.org's help files now, but it wasn't there originally, as I recall.

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Aniway announced:

As I recall, I had to configure the PC and sign on to windows (after a reboot) as 'pcguest'.

I made up a password to sign in with from the PC so I  could give a password on my Amiga to sign into the system with, for 'pcguest'. (Apparently the Samba software doesn't like not having a password.)

;-) In my experience, Samba requires no password to offer the Amiga's shares to the network.  Software used to read the PCs shares on the Amiga may require a login and password, depending on which flavor ot Windows you're running.  On my setup, SMBFS allows the login and password to be added as arguments to the command.  Thus, it can be written into a script and launched from a Workbench icon, or from a tools dock, as I do it.  

;-) Also, the login and password don't have to be the same ones that Windows is logged in under; they just have to be a pair that Windows recognizes.