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  74 >Chapter 3. Configuration problems</H1
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  81 >3.1. I have set 'force user' and samba still makes 'root' the owner of all the files I touch!</A
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  84 >When you have a user in 'admin users', samba will always do file operations for
  85 this user as 'root', even if 'force user' has been set.</P
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  93 >3.2. I have just installed samba and I'm trying to log in from Windows, but samba refuses all logins!</A
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  96 >Newer windows clients(NT4, 2000, XP) send encrypted passwords. Samba can't compare these
  97 passwords to the unix password database, so it needs it's own user database. You can
  98 add users to this database using "smbpasswd -a user-name".</P
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 100 >See also the "User database" chapter of the samba HOWTO Collection.</P
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