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blsub6
Asked: 2012-03-14 23:33:18 +0800 CST

Create a share with System Rescue CD

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I'm trying to grab some files off of a computer that no longer boots to OS.

On the SRCD computer:

  • I put in SRCD, boot, and make sure that I can ping the other computer (say I set the IP to 192.168.0.50 and the hostname to sysresccd)
  • I use ntfs-3g to mount the windows partition to /mnt/windows.
  • I chmod the /mnt/windows partition to 777
  • I edit /etc/samba/smb.conf.default and put in this:

[public]
path = /mnt/windows
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
browsable = yes

  • I use passwd to change the root password to password
  • I start up smbd

On the Windows 7 computer:

  • I go to Explorer, type in \\192.168.0.50\public and it comes up with a Windows Security dialog box
  • I enter username sysresccd\root and password password

It keeps telling me that ‘The specified network password is not correct’
Is there a step that I'm missing?

linux samba windows-7

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Samba doesn't use the Unix password database because the hashes are stored in a format that is not compatible with CIFS. You need to use the command smbpasswd username to update the samba password database.

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