Hi John. Hi everyone. They are w98 clients, 10 of them. All the clients can see the server shares and printing works too. All we want to do is to be able to browse the client disks from the server. Could you give us an example based on the following? e.g. My username on the server is 'root' and my password is 'foobar' My username on every client is 'steve' and my password on every client is 'foobar1' I want to be able to see the w98 box 'computer3.local', IP 192.168.0.3. Computer3.local can browse the shares on the server and print via the server so I believe all is set up O.K. Can't I just mount it on the server somewhere and browse it from there? Thanks for your patience, Steve. On Thursday 15 November 2001 19:00, you wrote:
Are we talking about windows clients or samba clients? You can test your config with smbclient -L netbiosname. if you can get a browse list then the client should be configured right. If you can't get a browse list you probably haven't added the user names to the smbpasswd file. Do that with "smbadduser username". Then tell samba how the samba usernames relate to unix usernames. in smbusers you want to list the unix name then samba/windows name like so: #/etc/smbusers root = administrator admin rootDude (you can list more than one alias) bsmith = billsmith
If you are using the default encrypt password (yes) and case settings you sould be set. If not, post them and we'll help. If in doubt about password case settings (there are several variables that can hose this) just comment them out and accept the defaults which are right for everything after windows for workgroups 3.11.
John
----- Original Message ----- From: "scc"
To: "SuSE" Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 4:06 AM Subject: [SLE] browsing samba clients Hi everyone.
How do I look at w98 clients whilst I'm sitting at the server? eg a client at machine1.local. smbmount asks me for a password which it
tells
me is wrong even if I'm guest.
Sorry to try again but we can't get it right still.
Thanks, Steve.