Another thing to check is the use of plain text vs encrypted passwords.
Samba can be configured for either. I recall that the default for Samba and
the default for Windows may be different.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mandrake-newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba Question
> On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 17:29, Mithrilhall2000 wrote:
> > When at my Windows XP computer I do a search using the IP of the linux
> > computer and it shows this:
> >
> > Name Folder Comment
> > 192.168.1.3 unknown
> >
> > If I double-click the IP address shown above I get a login prompt and I
type
> > in the username "bob" and the password "test" but it never logs in. It
just
> > keeps giving me the same prompt. If I go to the linux computer and open
> > "Network Monitoring" I can see that it is sending and receiving but I
can't
> > figure out why it's not letting me log in.
> >
> > If anyone can help me with this I would greatly appreciate it.
> >
> > Mithrilhall
>
> Do you have a share setup on your Samba box? What are its permissions?
> What is the version of Samba you are running (I seem to recall there
> being a problem with some fairly recent versions of Samba having trouble
> with WinXP)? Have you looked at your Samba logs ( /var/log/samba/log.*
> )? Let us know, and we can proceed from there.
>
> Dave
> --
> Beware the wrath of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup.
>
>
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