[wplug] Samba share question XPP, Win98, WinME

[Randy Kosarik]

XPP connects to the Samba share fine.

I do a:
    adduser -m {username}
    smbpasswd -a {username}
and the XPP sees the shares, connects without issue.

It's the Win98/ME machines that are giving me the grief.
They see the Linux box in the workgroup but, cannot get past security to see
the shared folders.
They want a password and I can't seem to catch who the username is. I tried
adding the logon name and the network name figuring it would be one or the
other - both case sensitive and not - to the Linux box.
I got tied up today and am finally looking over the advice to weigh the
options and start reconfiguring.

All I want at this point is to replace a Windows machine with a Linux
machine. It will simply be network storage that I can VPN into to do remote
backups and maintenance. (ohh the joys of a small family owned business)
Since I am using hardware VPN, some of my configuration headache is
alleviated.
Also, I have everything sitting fairly securely behind a firewall, so I am
not paranoid about security.
Although, I like the idea of requiring a username/password to access the
shared folders.

As I keep playing with Linux, I am going to start looking at Mail and Web
services.
I just need to force myself get this machine implemented or I will end up
"putting" Linux back in the back-burner again.
Sorry, I am still more comfortable in a MS world - even after the years of
Mr. Dinsel's preaching at college <G>.
Even with the RH9 -that I paid for- it is still cryptic or different - not
trying to say this is bad only that it takes time to learn.

I do appreciate the guidance this group has/does offer.

Thanks,
Randy



----- Original Message -----
From: "redtoade" <redtoade at yahoo.com>
To: <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [wplug] Samba share question XPP, Win98, WinME


> > Make sure netbios is enabled in XP (I think it is by
> > default).
>
> I think that if the netbios wasn't enabled, you would
> not be able to browse any of the other Win9X machines
> from WinXP either.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B315267
>
> ---------
>
> On a complete tangent, did you know that WinXP doesn't
> support NetBeui?  You can download it if you need to,
> but it's not recomended.  I found this out the hard
> way trying to get a network printer to communicate
> with two WinXP boxes a few weeks ago.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q306/0/59.asp
>
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