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No samba users
Authored by: qdzlug on Oct 16, '02 02:50:56PM

Well, this may help.....

All I wanted to do was to play music from my windows machine from a share on my powerbook.....searched, found this hint, and thought life was good.

So I tried to get sharing to work with my current configuration, but ran into the same problems above. 20 minutes and quite a bit of frustration later I figured out a workaround (good enough for now). I had a "postgres" user configured for some work I was doing with postgres a few weeks ago. I went in and checked "allow user to login from windows", and got back a dialog box to the effect of "in order to make this work we need to reset the password". Typed the password in on the windows side, clicked OK, and was working fine.

I still need to fix my login account, but for what I'm doing this works (for now).

HTH,

Jason



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No samba users
Authored by: qdzlug on Oct 16, '02 02:53:39PM

OK, just got my account to work.

1) Make sure the "allow user to log in from windows" box is checked in Accounts.
2) Go into "My Account" and change your password.
3) Try to log in from Windows.

Worked for me, which is a good thing because I was finding it a bit frustrating trying to deal with it! ;>

Jason



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