Samba

Marcel Kunath kunathma@pilot.msu.edu
Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:54:30 -0400 (EDT)


I had similar problem in the past. You didn't give mcuh information. You
should read the samba book of oreilly online. It goes into detail and if you
follow it you will succeed. I did.

mk

> > Mr Coffee wrote:
> >samba is giving me trouble. i got everything running and when i go into net
> >neighborhood in windows i see the server, but when i click on it to browse
> >it i get an error that says "password required to make this connection"
> >resource: file://linuxserver/IPC$
>
> Do you have the encrypted passwords option enabled in smb.conf?  This is
> required for later versions of win95 and all that followed.  IIRC the
> original release of win95 didn't require encrypted passwords (nor did win3x)
> and I'm not sure where win95a falls in that mix.  I know that win95b _does_.
> We have found that if you enable encrypted passwords it will allow anything
> that requires them to work fine without breaking anything that doesn't.  We
> have win95b/98 clients working alongside wfw311 clients from the same samba
> server with no problems.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Mike Rambo
> mrambo@lsd.k12.mi.us
>
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