if you use windows find to look for the machine.. can it see it then?? Start->search/find->Computers
and enter the hostname of the linux server (in my case the server is called "home") windows networking can be a pain the first time with samba.. I have never had a problem setting it up after my first ever battle... The problem is that you can't SEE the linux machines from windows..solve that first, worry about loggin in later. fireup komba2 and see if you can access the windows machines from the linux box.. that should tell you if there is a network config issue. let us know if you can see the machines both ways. rgds Franki -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 4:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] samba On Monday 31 Mar 2003 11:33 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 15:44, richard bown wrote: > > Now I'm confused :( > > > > The windows box only has 2 users, both have a null string as a password, > > ie I login as "richard" with a blank password. > > When I login to this box as a user "richard" and the password is > > "richard". > > I dont think linux likes null strings as passwords. > > On the Linux machine you'll need to create equivalent samba users with: > > smbadduser richard:richard > It will prompt for a password. Just press Enter to disable the > passwords. > I have only ever once added one user with a null password, and it never worked. I don't think samba does like null passwords - though it's possible that there is a minimum length for passwords set somewhere. To eliminate this as a suspect, could you set one of the windows machine with a password, match it on linux and samba and see if it appears? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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