Are you using encrypted passwords? In order to get a Linux box talking to
Win98 or NT you need to used encrypted samba passwords. If you need more
info on how to do this just ask.
Remember to use the 'mksmbpasswd' and 'smbpasswd' commands...
>I just recently installed 6.1 on my computer. I chose to install
>everthing, as I always do, but when I tried to connect from my win98 box,
>I found that I could not. I then saw that it was not started, so i started
>it with the command:
> /etc/rc.d/initd/smb start
>everything looks fine, but I still could not connect. So I read here that
>the problem was that a lock file did not exist, so I created it. Now I
>was able to connect from another linux machine using smbmount, and I was
>also able to connect to the other linux machine with smbmount also. But my
>problem is still in that I can not connect from win98 to 6.1, I tried it
>with net neighborhood, and manually from the command prompt using NET USE,
>and no dice.
>HELP.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Manuel Silveyra
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