"John D. Kim" wrote:
> I'm having a samba problem in my home as well connecting to my win2k
> machine. It sees the computers and the shares, but I can't access any of
> the shares, even though my roommate's winbox can access them fine. I
> remember reading somewhere that Win2k implemented certain changes to smb
> that breaks samba. So win95,98, and nt can access win2k, but not from
> linux... But the same document that I read also said that someone in
> samba is working with microsoft(yes, I know) about this and will get it
> fixed shortly. Has anyone out there been able to access win2k shares from
> linux using samba? If you did, which version of Samba are you using? The
> first block of free time I get, I'm downgrading my win2k back to 98...
>
> John Kim
> Linux System Engineer @ ASL - visit us as www.aslab.com
>
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Sean Armstrong wrote:
>
> > Ok. I went back and saw that Mandrake had only installed the Samba rpm and
> > did not install the client and common rpms. I installed these and I no
> > longer get any freeze ups with SAMBA. However when I click on the computer
> > that contains my share file, my share file does not come up. But when I
> > click on the computer that contains the printer share, all of the shares on
> > that computer are visible. (this is working with gnomba by the way) My share
> > file is located on a computer that is running win2000. Could this be a
> > problem? I can see the share fine from a computer using Be and from
> > computers using NT. Also I get the following error messges when I shutdown:
> > /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K35.smb: [ := : unary operation expected
> > /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/k75netfs: [ := : unary operation expected
> > /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K90network [ := : unary operation expected
> >
> > And when I boot I get similar messages:
> > /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network [ := : unary operation expected
> > /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S91smb: [ := : unary operation expected
> > /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S25netfs: [:= : unary operation expected
> >
> > Any ideas what could be causing this?
> > >Hmn.
> > >
> > >You need to go back a few steps. Attack one problem at a time; let's
> > >start with Samba.
> > >
> > >It looks like you've broken your Samba install -- that is, you didn't do
> > >a clean upgrade. Did you remove your old version before you put in the
> > >new version? (I suspect this because it sounds like your scripts are in
> > >disarray).
> > >
> > >First, let's see if you can ping the other hosts on your network. Get
> > >the IP addresses for the hosts you are having trouble with, and ping
> > >them. We need to make sure that you can talk to them properly.
> > >
> > >Second, make sure you don't have any mounted SMB volumes. Unmount them
> > >if you do.
> > >
> > >Third, use smbclient to see if you can look at the hosts in question:
> > >
> > ># smbclient -L hostname
> > >
> > >If there is a problem, it will return errors.
> > >
> > >Try this first, and then get back to us.
> > >
> > >-Stephen-
> >
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I am not having a problem with Samba and W2000 seems to work the same as NT?
I am using plain text passwords, never could get the encrypted ones to work
Jeanette
