Brian; In order to get Samba and XP playing nice together, there are several considerations to take into account.
1) What name does the XP box have? Not the username, the host name of the XP box? 2) Are the XP box and the Samba box in the same domain? ie; xp.localdomain or xp.briansdomain.com and samba.localdomain or samba.briansdomain.com ? 3) Are the XP box and the Samba box in the same workgroup? If not, is the XP box's workgroup also a workgroup on the samba box, as a LINUX workgroup? 4) What is the version of Samba you're running on the box? 5) Did you re-enter the XP box user's password in webmin, as a new password? Did you also UNcheck the "No Password Required" box in the "Edit Samba users" section of Webmin/Samba for the XP user? Let's start with these questions first. Get back to me on or off-list. Lanman *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 2/10/2003 at 12:13 AM Brian Parish wrote: >OK, I know that XP manages to make life as difficult as possible for >Samba, but does anyone have a way to make a workable solution preserving >at least minimal security? > >All I want to do is to have one totally open, public share available to >all W$ machines and one share that is secured by a password. W98 can be >made to behave enough to have this work I believe, but the "secure" >share needs to be accessed by a XP machine. > >I can make the XP machine see and use the open share by setting Samba to >allow guest access, but for any security, I need to pass a username and >password from XP and no matter what I do it arrives as a guest. >Usernames and password are identical on the Samba machine and the XP >machine and Samba is set to allow encrypted passwords. > >I believe that M$ have broken XP sufficiently to make this intentionally >difficult. They seem to have screwed up W$ to W$ networking fairly >convincingly in the process, but that's another story. > >Any clues gratefully received. > >TIA >Brian > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dan LaBine President Maximum Lans [EMAIL PROTECTED] (514) 489-7825 6915 Fielding Ave. Suite # 228 Montreal, Quebec, H4V 1P4
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