Richard Fiedler wrote: > > I pasted my smb.conf file to the end of this message. I bought the SAMBA > Black Book but I still have made no progress. > > Samba is running on Red Hat Linux Box. I can run swat from my other > machines. The Linux box has Windows 98 in the first partition and I can > network from my other Windows machines to the box so I know the network is > running. Of course I can only run either Linux or Win98 at one time. > > My other Win98 boxes are not normally because the are actually Macintoshes > running a product call Virtual PC. Virtual PC can run most operationing > systems including Linux, Windows NT, Dos and Windows 98. I mention this > because maybe it is still complicating the problem though I do'nt think it > should. > > I could find no reference to the IPC$ message in the Samba Black Book. > > I hope the smb.conf will clue you in. Actually all I would like to do is > getting anything to work first. > > Thanks > Win95 machines (as well as 98, 98-SE and Millenium) authenticate using the name of the currently logged on use. Yes, it's dumb. NT (and it's various incarnations) will allow you to specificy a user name to connect with (although you still cannot use two different users to connect to the machine). Logon to the windows machine using the same user name as the one on your RH box. If you use the same password for your windows user, you won't even get prompted for a password. However, there are several things you should be aware of when working in such an environment: You'd better let the RH box be your WINS server, and have all the Win machines register with it. Samba can also pretend to be a PDC for a WinNT domain, it might make your life a bit easier. Oh, and Win98 expects (by default) encrypted passwords (NTLM). It's supposed to fall-back to LANMAN auth if it cannot connect, but, uh, it doesn't always. You can use encrypted passwords on your Samba server as well, check the manual. -- "You will now die. Make whatever rituals are necessary for your species." - Ur-Quan, Kohr-Ah ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
