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Samba has a problem with encrypted vs unencrypted passwords. I forget the default setups, but I think Windows defaults to sending passwords in encrypted form while Samba expects to receive them as plain text. I think the latest version of Samba supports encryption, but I could be wrong there. The standard solution is to change the Windows registry setting so Windows uses unencrypted passwords. This is a FAQ. The registry values are detailed in the /usr/doc/packages/samba directory in the obviously named files. You may need to dig a little deeper in there to find out how to use them if you are not familiar with this sort of stuff.
i am attempting to get samba running on my network at home, but am comming across the following problem:
I am running samba on a SuSE 6.3 box (not really too important), A WINDOWS box on the network is able to detect that it is there, but can't access it. but, i can ping, finger, telnet, and ftp to the server (named: LINUX) but "network neighborhood" doesn't allow access to it. (for some reason it wants a password.) I have logged onto the WINDOWS box, as USERA and password as USERA (real names and passwords left out) so i figured i could get passed the password problem. NO. i entered in both the user password, and even ROOT password, but no success (yes i know that entering root passwords over SMB is not good because of text/plain type.
If i am on the LINUX box, i can run: smbmount //windows/c /mnt and it would mount fine (if i entered the username's password that is logged in.)
I can print fine to the printer, however the printer is located on the windows box so that was no problem.
I ran the samba setup utility and it is set up for public, and announce as 95 with user something (as opposed to share something or server something).
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