I found that samba account verification takes 3 account profiles to be the same with windows 2k and above. 1. The windows login 2. The Samba user account 3. The Unix account All 3 must be the same. With Win2k and up, windows requires an encrypted password transaction, so to accomodate this samba utilizes the unix/linux account for that part. > Does anybody have experience setting up Samba as a PDC for Windows XP > clients? I have followed > http://www1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/tutorials/samba/index.html but I am still > stumped. I am getting authentication errors, and it seems in part to be > because it can not read the /usr/local/private/smbpasswd file. It gets > permission denied to open it. I change the attributes to world readable (I > know -- uck!) and it sets the attributes back and then can not access it. > Funny it should be so self defeating. > > Anyway, has anybody set up one of these beasts? > > Tom Veldhouse > veldy at veldy.net > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list