Create a share with System Rescue CD

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.