A few guesses.... Firstly, if you're running (and you probably are) Wintendo, ratehr than NT/2K, then depending on the version, encrypted passwords will be a problem for you. I haven't used 9x for years, so I kinda forget how it works, but you should either be able to change a parameter in smb.conf, or make registry edits to the doze boxes, and resolve the problem.
Alternately, it will be an issue of userid/password combinations. Make sure that you have a userID and a password for each user who is accessing your Samba machine. This should show up in the samba logs. In addition to the log files, you might want to see what happens if you type 'smbclient -L localhost'. That will tell you about your box, and it's shares and stuff. You should be able to "check out" all the remote boxes like that. This will also tell you who is the browse master, and other details that will be significant. If you want to have a look at my SMB.conf, let me know. I run it as a PDC, and my server is my firewall/gateway. It's also on 24/7. So it might be a bit different than your config... Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jarrod Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 6:30 PM Subject: (clug-talk) help with SAMBA Hey All, I'm trying to wrestle this SAMBA thing and while I'm making some progress I am not wholly successful. I will outline what I have observed as being successful and what I would like to achieve. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've got my little home network behind a gateway. They belong to workgroup MYWORKGROUP (fictitious), each machine has a lowercase name consisting of one word (the name of the primary user), each machine has at least one read-only share set up. The Winbloze machines can see each other fine and can access each other's shares just fine. I have successfully gotten my Linux Laptop to show up on the Winbloze Network Neighborhood but when I try to access it I get prompted for a password that I am unsuccessfully entering. I am trying to use my Linux laptop to see the other (Winbloze) machines on the network. I appear to have SAMBA set up and installed correctly. I have edited my smb.conf file but I believe that I am missing something here. I would like to be able to see the shares of the other machines from the Linux Laptop. I would like the other machines to be able to see the shares on the Linux Laptop. Is there any way of setting this up so that I don't have to create user accounts for each Winbloze machine? I'm not sure how to say this... can each incoming machine access the same space (user account?) on the Linux Laptop. This is basically how each winbloze machine works and it would save me to trouble of setting up accounts. I am also using LinNeighborhood and it appears to get the other machines on the network but cannot see their shares. I would really like to get this working. I have some files to transfer and some of them are rather large. Ultimately I believe this endeavor could be useful. Thus far I have avoided SWAT for a few reasons. The most prominent is that I want to see what I am doing at the configuration level. Thanks in advance. Jarrod
