-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Same thing happened to me once. I got it to work eventually, but I changed so many things, I'm still not sure which one fixed the password problem you describe. Here's an excerpt from my "SOLVED" message on suse-linux-e from 5/1/02. I was mainly trying to print across the network, but I got file sharing too. Your password problem is likely solved by what I discuss below. You need Windows passwords (See control panel: users) and you need a username on the linux box with the same exact name as each Win computer username. Then within SWAT (see below) you also have to do a song and dance (a samba dance!) that creates samba users and enables them. One last thing, I never seemed to get it to work until I set up a WINS server, not that I even really know what that means. If you read the below and follow the directions in the link to the letter, I believe it will work. - --- Install samba. Edit /etc/inetd.conf to uncomment the line that says: ~ swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat swat Edit /etc/hosts.allow to contain: ~ swat: 127.0.0.1 192.168.0. if like me, you want any local computer (192.168.0.x) to be able to access SWAT. Type http://localhost:901 into a web browser. Use swat to set up things. I'll include my smb.conf as an attachment to show you how I set up my printer and a couple of shared directories. You can also follow the same advice I did from http://plug.phoenix.az.us/step-by-step/samba/toc.html which is and old but still useful "Samba Server Step-by-Step Guide". The one thing he doesn't tell you in that guide is to go to SWAT's passwords section and create a samba user for each client computer. You'll have to have a linux user on the server for each of these computers too. Then I made sure my windows computers were actually using the same user names and passwords for logging into windows (control panel:users) and then finally in swat click on ENABLE USER for each user you've created. After that the server computer showed up in Network Neighborhood and I could set up a network printer in Windows with the settings:printer:wizard thingy. J. Scott Thayer, M.D. wrote: | 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 |> |>- -- |>Alfredo J. 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