for a home network (i mean security is not an issue), do that :
launch w9x on the client workstation
let it start
then go to menu start, select disconnect <user>
this will tell you which USER is win-logged on the client
this id is NOT related to the MACHINE id that you get by right clicking on
"network neighborhood/poperties/id"
usually (well, at home i mean), you don't bother with a password (if win9x
doesn't ask one at startup it means you don't have one)
then on the linux samba box, do that :
check that you have an unix user defined whose name equals the win9x USER
name, or create it (passwd)
check that you have a smb user defined as well or create it too (smbpasswd -a)
then give both (unix and smb) the same password (the one win9x asks you at
startup) or set it to null (passwd -d user, smbpasswd -n user) if w9x
doesn't have one (BTW this solves encryption problems :-)
you have to understand that when you're logging to samba, there are
actually 2 authentication operations : samba by itself, of course, but also
unix, because samba service is PAM protected (unless you remove/unconfigure
PAM authentication for samba service)
should you, for whatever reason, want to "use" another win9x user name, go
to start/disconnect, then enter another win-logon name (with or without
password). next time you boot win9x, this user will be used instead of the
former one. of course this user must be defined accordingly on the server.
define shares as needed (now it's a pure samba rtfm job)
hth
ps if any of you has a few more minutes to test it, i'd like to hear about
win9x/nt password encryption WITH PAM authentication. i mean : what
password must the user be given with passwd to manage a windows encrypted
password. obviously i don't ask this question for samba, which is answered
since years by the famous ENCRYPTION.TXT
>> I'm trying to get Samba running at home on my RH7.2 box so my wife can use
>> the laser printer and store some docs on the big drive. I can see the
>> Linux box in the network neighborhood. When I try to log on to the box, I
>> get...
>>
>> "Enter network password"
>>
>> "\\POSEIDON\IPC$"
>>
>> When I enter the password, it indicates I've entered the wrong password.
>> If I understand correctly the username I logged into the WIN98 box is the
>> same user I will log into the Linux box(same Samba user).
>>
>> Also, should encrypted passwords be turned on or off on the Linux box?
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Bien sûr que je suis perfectionniste !
Mais ne pourrais-je pas l'être mieux ?
Thierry ITTY
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