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author | Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> | 2003-03-08 17:29:00 +0000 |
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committer | Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> | 2003-03-08 17:29:00 +0000 |
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Add Q&A for people having trouble trying to log in without a proper
samba user database.
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diff --git a/docs/docbook/faq/config.sgml b/docs/docbook/faq/config.sgml index a95ac84d2fd..db27102cdf2 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. </para> </sect1> + +<sect1> +<title>I have just installed samba and I'm trying to log in from Windows, but samba refuses all logins!</title> + +<para> +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". +</para> + +<para> +See also the "User database" chapter of the samba HOWTO Collection. +</para> +</sect1> </chapter> |