On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:19:57PM +0100, richard bown wrote: > Hi all, > after much hair pulling, and ploughing though the samba help file, I > found on the later version of samba entering the a dummy password as > XXXXin the samba smbpasswd dos'nt work. > But using smbpasswd -a <user> <password> into a empty file does. > > Still in the position that thw winblows machine can only see this linux > mavchine if the ip address is searched for , and then the workgroup is > unknown, and login is blocked. >
Have you tried the "remote announce" option in your smb.conf? Dave -- Dave Whiting Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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