[WBEL-users] SAMBA

[Ganeshram Iyer]

Thanks Craig and Johnny for your help, but I am still at a loss. I am a 
windows admin and am struggling with modifying text files to achieve 
what I need to. I am currently using Webmin to manage Samba. After 
playing around with it for a while, I realized that Webmin was not 
modifying my smb.conf file at all. Is it supposed to? Maybe that is 
where all my problems start and end. I tried to install SWAT and run it. 
If I try to access it with Konqueror, I get an error saying that 
"Connection to host localhost is broken" after logging in. I dont know 
what that means. If I use Firefox instead, I get a blank page after 
logging in. So I went back to smb.conf and gedit. I tried adding the 
lines one-by-one and still no luck. I did have the line that says root = 
administrator in smbusers. But still no luck. I am thinking of starting 
over again from scratch and making sure that I get it right from the 
beginning. I am refering to hughesjr.com currently. Any other docs that 
are simple enuff for a part time windows admin to understand?

Thanks
Ganesh

Craig White wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 20:42, Ganeshram Iyer wrote:
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>I am gathering that you are using samba server as PDC. I haven't a clue
>what you are using for passdb. Normal configuration would have you
>creating a user named Administrator. I am also assuming that you have
>set unix sync = yes
>
>smbpasswd -a Administrator #adds user Administrator
>smbpasswd Administrator #sets password for user Administrator
>edit /etc/samba/smbusers to look have a line like
>root = Administrator #you can have more users if you like
>
>Then the user Administrator should have root equivalent.
>
>Log on to Windows machine as Administrator, password, domain_name
>
>This should give you full Administrator privileges to the machine.
>
>Start -> Settings -> Control Panels -> Administrative Tools -> Computer
>Management
>
>Groups, edit the Administrators Group (or better yet, Power Users),
>Click Add, Click Advanced, Click 'Find Now' You should be able to locate
>any of the 'Domain Groups' you have created.
>
>If you don't have domain groups, you will need to create them.
>>From command line on Linux, type 'net groupmap list' this will show you
>the domain groups. 
>
>For Samba documentation, see www.samba.org - click on the documentation
>link, see the Samba 3 How-To
>
>Craig
>