Read the man pages. Win 98 uses encrypted authentication.
You need to properly configure smb.conf
You cannot just start it and expect it to work properly across all
clients.
J.
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, MANUEL SILVEYRA wrote:
> 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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