Samba, anyone?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 16:43:02 -0700 (PDT)
kathleen lynch <lynchlinux at yahoo.com> wrote:

> HI,
>  
> I am a newbie.  I am trying to authenticate to linux from a windows
> box.  I am assuming Samba challenges me  for user name and Id.  My
> user name suddenly has  the the machine name appended to it  In this
> case, Poulenc/ root.   or Poulenc/ notes    Do I need to create a user
> in  RedHat with one of these names?  or is Samba looking elsewhere for
> user id and pasword?  Any help would be much appreciated.
>  
> Part 2:  The challenge question:  whoami ?  On the windows box I am
> Kathleen lynch/SCI going into the linux box and and Domino/Notes.   I
> am assuming it is Samba who is challenging me as both machines are in
> MyGroup.  However, for all I know it could be RedHat or Domino
> challenging me.  How does one know?
Kathleen,
I don't fully understand what you mean. 
When mounting a Windows share (which uses SMBFS) may require a password.
You can set those passwords up in your fstab file (for older Linux
releases) or in a credentials file.