On Fri, 17 May 2002, Franki wrote: > Thanks daRcmaTTeR > > Ok, so if we assume thats what it is.. how do I convince the > win2000 pc that its talking to a win98 machine??
well...I recall when I was setting up samba to run on my Mandrake 8.2 machine on sunday afternoon that there was a setting in the samba setup in swat that sets the FS type that is seen by the client machines. as I understand it this is the FS type the samba server emulates. by default this set to NTFS. two of the four shares are set as default and the other two are set as FAT32. the other boxes see all the shares just fine, so my first inclination is to say, reset that setting in samba so that you win2000 machine thinks it's looking at a share on a win98 box. if indeed it is attempting to copy out it's file/registry settings while copying out the file to the share changing this setting should take care of that. > > is it possible that this install is setup as a master server and > as a result win2000 assumes that its NT ???? > > is there a way around this??? see above... > > It wasn't doing it before on 8.1, so I guess either this time I > made it the master or I've loaded something on the win2000 box > that has changed the default method??? > I know what you mean. there are things different about samba on Mandrake 8.2 compared to 8.1. One of those differences, and it's a nice one, is that swat runs from webmin where as it didn't before. that fact alone made setting up samba on Mandrake 8.2 the most painless process of the whole setup. THANK YOU MANDRAKESOFT!! Awesome work!! > > any ideas? or must I just put up with it or copy them to a fat32 > partition on the linux box??? > really...I would just those FS type settings in samba, restart the service and see what happens. I have a feeling things will change. if it doesn't then we're all going to learn alot over next few days. :) -- daRcmaTTeR ---------- Registered Linux User #186492
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