Sounds like you need to read up on WINS support. See the samba docs under
/usr/doc/samba*. Do you have a router separating the two networks?
Tim
Sean Armstrong wrote:
> Try and get an answer from SAMBA. Good luck. I've tried that already
> and got ZERO response. The reason why I posted it here was because
> this was a problem with the smb bundled with LM 6.1. Since I couldn't find
> help from SAMBA I decided to ask this group of Knowledgable folks. Plus, the
> purpose of this group is not only for Mandrake problems, which there are
> quite a few with the new 7.0 release, but it is also to help expand the
> general knowledge of linux, since Mandrake is nothing more than a
> distribution of linux and really doesn't have much in the way of proprietary
> software.
>
> Anyways, I digress, I think I might have discovered the problem I'm having
> with SAMBA and wanted to run this by everyone. Since I'm talking to a NT box
> on an NT network with a Linux box and SAMBA use tcp/ip to do this, I
> realized that my NT username and logon password only worked on the main NT
> domain, and the Box I'm trying to talk to is on a seperate IP block. Since
> my Linux box and this NT box are on the same IP block and the NT network is
> on a different IP block, the box is not recognizing my NT username and
> password. I realized this when I tried to logonto this NT box through the
> box itself on the Box's domain instead of the NT domain. So how do I create
> a seperate local network between My Linux box and this NT box? As you can
> tell my NT knowledge is very low. Any help with this problem would be gretly
> appreciated.
> Thanx,
> SA
>
> >From: Todd Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: Lyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >CC: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: RE: [expert] SMB Help Please.
> >Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 13:01:35 -0500 (EST)
> >
> >what "security=" setting do you have in your smb.conf file?
> >do you have an smbpasswd file?
> >have you set the smbpasswd for each user?
> >
> >these are general samba questions which would be better directed to the
> >samba mailing list since they are not specific to mandrake.
> >
> >i run samba-2.0.6 on several mandrake systems (6.1 and 7.0) but i built my
> >samba installation from source rather than using the supplied rpm.
> >
> >On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Lyle wrote:
> >
> > > Todd & all;
> > >
> > > I was NOT able to get SAMBA to work with WinNT or Win98 until I enabled
> > > plain text passwords. This was with the Samba included with LM 6.0. I
> > > tried encrypted passwords yes and no in the SAMBA config and it just
> >plain
> > > did not work. WinNT SP3 was when Microsoft changed their password
> > > encryption and that's why I mentioned SP3. This new password scheme has
> > > been included in Win95 patches and is now in Win98.
> > >
> > > If I am doing something wrong, please give me some constructive answers.
> > >
> > > Lyle
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Todd Pfaff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 7:55 AM
> > > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > > Cc: Lyle
> > > Subject: RE: [expert] SMB Help Please.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Lyle wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have been playing with SAMBA here with Linux and found that there
> >are
> > > > known problems<GRIN> with it. Recently Microsoft changed the
> >algorithm
> > > used
> > > > to encrypt passwords(WinNT SP3) and SAMBA hasn't caught up with that.
> >You
> > > > need to enable plain text passwords on your Windows machines and this
> > > > problem should go away.
> > >
> > > This is misinformation.
> > >
> > > First of all, you used "recently" and to refer to "WinNT SP3". Huh?
> > > SP3 is several years old now. That's not recently, especially in the
> > > computer industry.
> > >
> > > Secondly, samba does work with encrypted passwords and WinNT and any
> > > service pack (up to and including SP6 in my personal experience).
> > >
> > > > See Microsoft technical articles #Q187228 and Q166730 for the registry
> > > > entries to enable plain text passwords.(which are not really plain
> >text,
> > > but
> > > > that's another subject)
> > >
> > > Don't enable plain text passwords unless you really need to. Read the
> > > samba documentation to learn when it may be necessary to enable plain
> >text
> > > passwords.
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Sean Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 2:26 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: [expert] SMB Help Please.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Here's the deal, I'm able to use gnomba to see the NT computer on the
> >NT
> > > > network that I want to mount. I've got user access to this computer.
> >But
> > > > when I give it my username and password, it refuses to let me in. So I
> > > > thought this might be a problem with gnomba and decided to use the
> > > smbmount
> > > > command. It gave back a positive name query response from the correct
> >NT
> > > box
> > > >
> > > > and then asked for a password. When I entered in the correct password
> >for
> > > my
> > > >
> > > > username I got the following response back:
> > > > session setup failed : ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (ACCESS denied.)
> > > > smbmount: login failed
> > > > Could not umount /mnt/share: Device or resource busy
> > > > smbmount: exit
> > > >
> > > > Now /mnt/share is the directory I set up to mount the share directory
> >from
> > >
> > > > the NT box. I'm guessing because of the previous errors the smbumount
> > > > command could not dismount this drive right away. Are my acces
> >problems
> > > due
> > > > to my SAMBA or to the NT network I'm connected to?
> > > > I'm running Mandrake 6.1 on a 133 Mhz pentium DELL computer. Any
> >Ideas?
> > > > Please don't say contact the SAMBA people because I am never able to
> >get
> > > an
> > > > answer from them.
> > > > Thanx,
> > > > SA
> > > >
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