At 10:28 AM 2/23/2001 -0800, Ira M. Bargon III wrote:
>I am using Mandrake 7.2. I just configured samba, and on any of my windows
>clients i can now see the server, but when i double click on it, windows
>gives me an error sayinga that "windows can not find the computer or share
>name". I know i havent really gave that much information, but does anyone
>know what the problem could be. I also tried doing a smbclient command and
>got a connection failed.
>
>Thanks.
>
> Ira
One thing to check for on the samba.conf is to make sure you have the use
encrypted password=yes set. check the syntax of that but you get the drift.
windows 95 c an all of win98 use encrypted passwords. I had to set that to
yes in the samba.conf file to get the windows boxes to log on.
jack
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