Hello everyone! This is the first time I'm trying to interact with users of ILUGCAL. I have been reading the mails since the past 2 months but wasn't interacting as I had started using LINUX very recently and truly speaking, I couldn't really understand what was going on. But now I feel comfortable to work on it and I shall be working on installing Apache, Squid, Ipchains, Oracle 8i and sendmail in a linux box pretty soon. I started off with samba server and am encountering some probs. Could you give me some solution to my prob? I'm presenting you with the details of what I did to try to get samba connectivity on a WinNT Domain having Win98 client machines. I only have modified the /etc/smb.conf file. Haven't done any enties for the Linux box in the WinNT Domain Server. The Linux Box has the host name Testpad". The WinNT Domain name is "DOMAIN". The users in the WinNT Domain are "Arkay_1", "Arkay_2", "Arkay_3" and "Arkay_4". These users logon to the Domain using Win98 machines. The Subnet mask is 255.255.0.0 and the IP address pool that I'm using is 191.127.191. On executing the command samba start, my Linux Box "Testpad " is visible on every machine in the network including the WinNT Domain Server and all the client Win98 machines. When I try to access Testpad thru the WinNT Server by double clicking on the icon in the network neighbourhood it gives me a dialogue box which says: "Incorrect password or Unknown user name for \\Testpad." and presents me with 2 fields which are: "Connect as: " and "Password: ". At this point I enter "root" in the field "Connect as :" and provide my root password in the Password field. Testpad lets me access the shared directories after this. I am also able to connect to Testpad from the WinNT Domain server with the other user names and their password as present in Testpad. I haven't created any entries for the users present in Testpad in my WinNT Domain. The problem starts when I try to access Testpad from Win98 clients. Testpad is visible in Win98 clients too but on trying to access Testpad it gave me a dialogue box which said: Resource : \\Testpad\IPC$ Password : I gave the root password but it didn't connect me saying "Invalid Password". At the end I created the user accounts present in the WinNT Domain in Testpad. And this helped me access Testpad from Win98 Clients. But I wasn't very happy with the solution as this would mean that I would have to keep on creating accounts in Testpad for every user who's present in the network or outside it in order to allow him access to Testpad and thats gonna be an administrative overhead . I did one more thing. I created an user account for an existing user in Testpad on the WinNT Domain server and tried to logon to the network thru a Win98 client and access Testpad. It worked! Is this the solution? Do I have to create user accounts for every user on the Linux Box in the WinNT Domain Server and the login thru the Win98 workstations using the user ID of the users of Linux Box in order to access the resources? This seems to be absurd. This would again create problems with the licensing policies I guess and is also gonna be an administrative overhead ! I am giving you details of the lines I edited in the /etc/smbconf file. I am mentioning ONLY the lines I edited and uncommented. The rest remain the same as they were initially. workgroup = DOMAIN server string = samba server hosts allow = 191.127.191. load printer = yes guest account = nobody ( I still don't know how to login as guest ) log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 security = user encrypt passwords = yes smb password file = /etc/smbpasswd I'd be glad if you could provide some solution to my problem. Manas Bharadwaj 2A Jahura Bazar Lane Flat # C/6 Bose Pukur Calcutta: 700042 #442-5599 ( Available after 10.30pm till 3.30am and from morning 7.30am -10.00am) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
