you need to turn on password encryption on smb.conf and set up smbpasswds, unless you are using win 95.
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:00, Patrick Dunford wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > >now for another adventure, swat is an excellent way of setting up samba. > >on debian you need the package "swat". then browse to > >http://linuxipaddress:901 (thats port 901). > > > >the biggest trap is encrypted passwords. by default all windows versions > >from about 98 onwards encrypt their passwords. standard linux > >authentication via /etc/passwd cannot cope, so samba runs a separate > >authentication scheme using smbpasswd. > > > >to add a user to that smbpasswd database, do this as root: > > > >smbpasswd -a patrick > > > >you will be prompted for a password. it can be the same as your linux > >password, and must be the same as the password you log into windows with. > > keep getting "connection refused" http://debian:901 > > with hosts and lmhosts entry for 192.168.0.1 debian > > smb.conf says password encryption is off. > > checked in samba documentation, in Debian swat is disabled by default. > Edit inetd.conf to enable swat. Kill inetd. Start inetd. Reload web > page. Enter root and password. It works :) > > At the moment in Network Neighourhod I can see the server but can't > browse it (it asks for a password for IPC$). > > Is Hugh McColl in your robotics mailing list? I believe so!
