I just managed to fix a similar problem myself. I could see the Samba server from the Windows machines, but couldn't browse the shares, although i thought everything was set up right. I had to add encrypted password support for the Win98 boxen on the network. Then I added the following lines to smb.conf:
encrypt passwords = yes smbpasswd file = /path/to/smbpasswd preferred master = yes donain logons = yes Those lines basically turn the Samba server into the equivalent to an NT domain controller. I just had to set the windows networking to log into an NT domain to authenticate, and all works well now. I spent probably 8 hours this afternoon reading through the man page for smb.conf, the DOMAIN.txt that comes with the source tarball and countless daemon restarts before i figured this out. And it's all for the better because I don't have to put an NT server back up. Hope this helps.... Dan Pomohaci wrote: > > I have a Linux server (Debian - slink) which must share files with a > > bunch of Windows boxes. I've installed Samba on Linux and have made all the > > modifications (I think) on Windows clients. Now they can see the Linux > > server but they are not permited to access the files from Linux > > server. > > This is my smb.conf file: > > on Windows side I've made 192.168.1.1 (Linux IP) WINS and DNS server > > and everything seems OK (par example they can use Netscape to access > > Internet through the Linux gateway.) > > Please help me!!! (otherwise they will force me to install Win NT :-( > > -- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > | Dan N. Pomohaci | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > > | Lecturer - Faculty of Biotechnology | | > > | University of Agricultural Sciences | | > > | 59 Marasti Ave, code 71331, | tel: 40-1-2223700/324 | > > | Bucharest, Romania | fax: 40-1-22232693 | > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --L92x1OKgUY-- > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
