1. Right-click on Network Neighborhood
2. Select Properties
3. Change the Workgroup
4. Reboot - It's windblows.....

Jason Greenwood wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have been watching this thread closely as I too have been unable to
> get samba working properly here at work. How do you change the workgroup
> settings for users on their win98 boxen?? I obviously need to change
> them to MDKGROUP for it to work right but I see no way to change it on
> the offending win98 boxes.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jason
>
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: [expert] samba
> > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:33:35 +0100
> > From: Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > On Monday 31 Mar 2003 8:32 pm, richard bown wrote:
> >
> >>  Hi All
> >>
> >> , thanks Kwan & Torstein for the advice , but so far the windows machine
> >> still cannot see this machine.
> >> I have opened ports 137 & 139 on the firewall , I've altered the
> >> smb.conf as suggested, included the chmod and chown  foe the public dir,
> >> but still nothing.
> >> The modified smb.conf is as follows:-
> >> [global]
> >>         workgroup = MDKGROUP
> >>         netbios name = FW-GB7TF
> >>         server string = Samba Server %v
> >>         encrypt passwords = Yes
> >>         log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
> >>         max log size = 50
> >>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> >>         printcap name = cups
> >>         domain logons = Yes
> >>         dns proxy = No
> >>         printer admin = @adm
> >>         printing = cups
> >>         security = share
> >> [homes]
> >>         comment = Home Directories
> >>         read only = No
> >>         browseable = No
> >>
> >> [printers]
> >>         comment = All Printers
> >>         path = /var/spool/samba
> >>         create mask = 0700
> >>         guest ok = Yes
> >>         printable = Yes
> >>         print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r   # using client
> >> side printer drivers.
> >>         browseable = No
> >>
> >> [print$]
> >>         path = /var/lib/samba/printers
> >>         write list = @adm root
> >>         guest ok = Yes
> >>
> >>
> >> The smbusers file as follows:-
> >>
> >> # Unix_name = SMB_name1 SMB_name2 ...
> >> root = administrator admin
> >> nobody = guest pcguest smbguest
> >>
> >> I'm still stumped, any more suggestions ??
> >
> >
> > It looks as though your windows users don't have accounts on your box?
> > They
> > need a user account, with password and username exactly matching their
> > windows logon, and a samba user account, again with an exact match in
> > username and password.
> >
> > I presume they also have MDKGROUP as their workgroup, remembering case
> > sensitivity?
> >
> > Anne
> >
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