paul trader wrote:
hi alan - well, i did both. at first the $INCLUDE was put at the bottom of the users file, and there was 1 entry in the included file, at line 1.
Why do you have a $INCLUDE? You did NOT mention it in your other posts. The help here presumes that you accurately describe what you're doing. If you're not doing that, the help will be unhelpful.
i removed the $INCLUDE statement and put the username/password entry directly in the users file, but it was at the bottom where the $INCLUDE was removed from.
So when you were told to put the entry on line 1, you instead put it on the bottom of the file?
either way the linux clients could authenticate but not the windows ones. only after i tried moving the entry directly under the 'steve' example did it start working, so i moved the $INCLUDE statement there too.
That makes absolutely no sense. Given your other mis-statments, I think you're wrong here, too. When you follow the documentation and instructions here, it WILL WORK. Doing random other things will make it NOT WORK. I have no idea what you're doing, or what you changed to make it work. And likely neither do you. Alan DeKok.