Thanks for the help.  The problem turned out to be that samba unless setup 
otherwise uses clear un-encoded passwords and win98 uses an encoding scheme.
I added an item to the win98 registry to allow sending passwords in the clear 
and it started recognizing the proper password.  BB




On Thursday 05 June 2003 13:13, you wrote:
> Have you installed the client for "windows netwks" on your 98 box ?
> Do you open a session by entering a login/passwd or not ?
> Have you created the samba user on your linux box (smbadduser command)
>
> Seems like samba doesn't recognize your win session password, or share
> password.
> Try changing your win98 user paswword, and use smbadduser to add
> /overwrite your share password for the user.
>
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> >I rebuilt my win98 machine and lost a password that was saved - haven't
> > keyed it in years.  When I go to network neighborhood I can see the
> > //prod server but when I double click it I am asked for a //prod/IPC$
> > password.  I have tried to find it  on the samba server but I can't. 
> > Please help.
> >
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