I will add to my last message. The reason that my wife's Win98 box could not see my linux box was that smbd and nmbd were not running (how do you set these to start at system startup, I know I could put them in boot.local but I think there is a more elegant way?) Now I am left with the previous problem. When I try to access my machine (abyss) from hers I get a requester that says: You must supply a password to make the connection: \\ABYSS\IPC$ I have tried all passords I can think of and none work. Any ideas? I am so close. Scott
I am in the middle of configuring Samba with one LInux box (mine) and one Win98 box (my wifes). I currently have no problem mounting her hard drive on my Linux box, I can see her machine in LinNeighborhood etc. The problem is I can't get her MY machine to appear in Network Neighborhood on HER machine. When i first was playing with this a few weeks ago I could see my machine but when I tried to log onto it a password was requested and I could not figure out what passward was wanted. I tried all that I knew for both machines with no result. Any suggestions would be appreciated. The networking works fine both ways when I am running Win98 on both machines so all the basics are fine. This is just a fine tuning matter I think. I am running Suse 8.0. Scott
Just one thought: Win98 boxes will not connect to a samba server until you add EnablePlainTextPassword to the registry. HTH.
El Sáb 25 May 2002 13:02, escribiste:
I was only able to figure out Samba after reading info from these two sites, perhaps they'll help you:
Samba Server Step By Step Guide http://plug.phoenix.az.us/step-by-step/samba/toc.html
Chapter 10.3 on Samba of O'Reilly's Learning Debian GNU/Linux http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/ch10_03.html
Keith Jacobs wrote: | Thanks Brian for your useful reply; unfortunately I still have | problems. | | Which version of SUSE are you using? | 8 Personal, I have 7.3 professional and several win boxes running | in the office all of which are networked and have shared | resources. | | Firstly, are you sure you have installed Samba (including | smbclient?). Do rpm -qa | grep samba | to find out. | | Reports samba-client-2.2.3a-64 | | Second, is the smbfs module loaded. Find out by doing | lsmod | | smbfs was not loaded | | If it is not, (as root) do | modprobe smbfs | to load it. | | now loaded, lsmod reports smbfs loaded but unused | | I think you need to add a line to | /etc/init.d/boot.local | to do this automatically at boot, but others here will be more
knowledgeable
| on this. | | I've ticked every box in YaST system settings | | Thirdly, make smbmnt and smbumount suid root, so that ordinary | users
can use
| them. As root, do | chmod 4755 /usr/bin/smbmnt | | This reports "too few arguments" | | chmod 4755 /usr/bin/smbumount | | This reports "too few arguments" | | Fourthly, ensure that there are shared resources on the Windows | (I am assuming 98) machines. | | As mentinoed above I have several networked systems (NT4 Server, | Win98 & Win2K workstations, a Win98 notebook, and a SuSE 7.3) to | which this same system is connected and all share files and | printers. | | Fifthly, try pinging from each computer to all others. | |>From this SuSE box I can ping the IP address of all systems on |> the LAN. I | | can also ping the IP address of this SuSE box but I cannot ping | its
name noe
| see it in the Network Neighbourhood of any windows system. I've | not tried the SuSE 7.3 system. I edited samba.conf to make all | systems use the same workgoup name. | | I've not installed LinNeighbourhood as yet as I think I need to | be able to see this box from the win boxes before I try accessing | the shared
resources
| of the win boxes. | | Regards | Keith Jacobs
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