From ad2e7324f0feda2a391a21c06f7515ef2a152b7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jelmer Vernooij Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 17:29:00 +0000 Subject: Add Q&A for people having trouble trying to log in without a proper samba user database. (This used to be commit 957c11e40e0aedc24d2dce2aaae9888673d68e01) --- docs/docbook/faq/config.sgml | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/docbook/faq') diff --git a/docs/docbook/faq/config.sgml b/docs/docbook/faq/config.sgml index a95ac84d2f..db27102cdf 100644 --- a/docs/docbook/faq/config.sgml +++ b/docs/docbook/faq/config.sgml @@ -8,4 +8,18 @@ When you have a user in 'admin users', samba will always do file operations for this user as 'root', even if 'force user' has been set. + + +I have just installed samba and I'm trying to log in from Windows, but samba refuses all logins! + + +Newer windows clients(NT4, 2000, XP) send encrypted passwords. Samba can't compare these +passwords to the unix password database, so it needs it's own user database. You can +add users to this database using "smbpasswd -a user-name". + + + +See also the "User database" chapter of the samba HOWTO Collection. + + -- cgit