I was sent this reply by Samy Elasmawy, he is comepletely right.
Just one thing, the how to is for w95. In Win98 however there is already an
entry for EnablePlainTextPassword. I deleted it and entered my own. What the
hell, it worked.
>
> hmmmm, strange , you may want to reinstall the drivers act in your
> netyworking section , use the plain ip , you dont need all the
> novel stuff,
> same with the other protacols , just client for mickysoft , your adapter
> driver , and ip/tcp for your adapter. You may want to change your registry
> setting to plian text password , see the suse help sight , do a search on
> samba , and you will find it.
>
> >I have set up a linux box (SuSE 6.0) in my cellar and connected it to my
> >win98 pc upstairs. After getting some idea of how the thing is set up and
> >where setup files are and so on I managed to get the two connected using
> >TCP/IP and Samba.
> >
> >Generally all goes well, but sometimes after rebooting one or other of
the
> >machines for any reason I lose access to the local network from the win98
> >machine. Logging off and on doesn't help. I CAN however ping from a to b
& b
> >to a quite happily. Also I can use telnet to sign onto the Linux machine
> >from win98.
> >
> >Can any body suggest a solution or even a possible reason for
> this problem?
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