Thanks a lot John, That result the problem for me. I am very grateful. -Paul Hong
----- Original Message ----- From: "John H Terpstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul Hong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "samba newsgroup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] Windows 98 cannot access Samba > On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Paul Hong wrote: > > > Hi, > > Works fine with Win2K or XP, but when I go to a Win98 system. > > "You must supply a password to make this connection: > > Resource: \\bigred\ipc$ > > password: i put in all the password, but none of them work. > > > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. > > On the Samba server does the following work: > > smbclient -L localhost -U% > > If not then you possibly do not have a guest account enabled. On most unix > system the guest account maps to 'nobody' or it's equivalent. On some > systems this has uid 65534, which is a bad thing. If that is the case on > your system, then create a separate system account called 'pcguest' and > then in your smb.conf [globals] put: > guest account = pcguest > > That should solve this problem. > > - John T. > -- > John H Terpstra > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
