Hi Richard and others having trouble with samba. For a network of samba and windows but does not have a windows server/domain controller. example setup. Workgroup = homenet User = winuser Passswd = winpass Win98 user logs into windows with username winuser and passwd winpass. In control panel network, set identification/workgroup to homenet In configuration under tcp/ip of network card/wins configuration/ set to ip of samba server Give it a ip in the same class C and samba server.
Things to change in samba.conf over the default. workgroup = homenet hosts allow = 192.168.100. #change this to the class c you are on os level = 34 #for samba to win election over nt/2000 workstations. domain master = yes preferred master = yes wins support = yes Add the user and passwd to samba/linux box ----cut below, save as ---- etc/samba/smbpasswd # user :group change user to match windows user, change group to mach that user in /etc/group winuser:501:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:[U ]:LCT-00000000: winuser2:502:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:[U ]:LCT-00000000: ----cut--------- run smbpasswd winuser passwd winpass At this point the "X's" will change to a encrypted password. Add windows hostname and ip to /etc/hosts Edit /etc/nsswtched hosts line to hosts: files dns nisplus nis Restart samba. Restart windows to flush cache and try to connect again. This is from memory and most likely left something out. Gary. On 01 Apr 2003 21:31:05 +0100, you wrote: >Sorry Guys, this is getting a pain !!! >I have at last managed to get the windows machine to see the linux >machine, albeit its still very wrong. >If I use the find computers in the entire section of winblows network >neighbourhood, it will find it and show the shares if I use the ip >address of the linux machine, either the static address use on the >internal port or the dynamic ip address on the internet port. >The permissions are still wrong as it refused access to the printer, >even though it was shown. >The netbios name is not being picked up by the winblows machine. >I have changed the netbios name to something else as was suggested. > >Bill Gates must hold the record for causing more suffering than anyone >else ! > >Richard
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