[NBLUG/talk] Samba solutions

[Warren Raquel]

That's odd. I have users who have different Unix logins than windows 
logins and I only use mapping in those situations. Otherwise there 
shouldn't be a need for it.

Bob Blick wrote:

>Fixed. Two problems:
>
>1) Username mapping is not unixuser = winuser. It is unixuser = winmachine.
>
>I had to change the entry in smbusers to read:
>bob = ASTG300 instead of bob = bob
>
>Documentation contradicts this! I seem to recall being bitten by this one
>before.
>
>At this point I could use shares if I knew they existed and called them by
>IP address. Still no listing in Explorer or LinNeighborhood though.
>
>2) Netmask was 255.255.0.0 on the new linux machine, instead of
>255.255.255.0 like the rest of the network.
>
>This is the first time I've ever had a problem with netmasks breaking
>something in this way.
>
>Fixing that made shares show in Explorer and machine names work.
>
>Cheerful regards,
>
>Bob
>
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