Hi, in a local network from tumbleweed, i must have one or two times a year (or less) access to a windows 98 system running at a mechanical machine (no way to update). up to maybe last year (maybe the year before) this line was ok inside my automount file: plasma_c -fstype=cifs,username=yyyyyyyy,password=xxxxxx,uid=1000,gid=100,vers=1.0,sec=lanman,servern=yyyyyyy ://192.168.0.4/C i know sambafilesystem has disabled, oder meanwhile maybe drop unsecure lanman and maybe other things. so i got a error: kernel: Use of the less secure dialect vers=1.0 is not recommended unless required for access to very old servers kernel: CIFS: VFS: Use of the less secure dialect vers=1.0 is not recommended unless required for access to very old servers kernel: bad security option: lanman kernel: CIFS: VFS: bad security option: lanman is there a way to still access win98 from actual cifs/samba ???? man mount.cifs say: sec=arg Security mode. Allowed values are: • none - attempt to connection as a null user (no name) • krb5 - Use Kerberos version 5 authentication • krb5i - Use Kerberos authentication and forcibly enable packet signing • ntlm - Use NTLM password hashing • ntlmi - Use NTLM password hashing and force packet signing • ntlmv2 - Use NTLMv2 password hashing • ntlmv2i - Use NTLMv2 password hashing and force packet signing • ntlmssp - Use NTLMv2 password hashing encapsulated in Raw NTLMSSP message • ntlmsspi - Use NTLMv2 password hashing encapsulated in Raw NTLMSSP message, and force packet signing i tried ntlm: kernel: bad security option: ntlm kernel: CIFS: VFS: bad security option: ntlm then i tried none and i tried to do not use the "sec=...": kernel: CIFS: Attempting to mount \\192.168.0.4\C kernel: CIFS: VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -13 ok, this could be, because in wind98 a username and password is set. did anybody know how to disable username and password in win98 (if this could work) or get access to the win98 shared folder with actual cifs/samba with the username/password on the win98 side ? and yes, google is not my friend, i found nothing useful. simoN -- www.becherer.de ----------------------------------------------- - Das ist die vorlaeufig endgueltige Version! - Herbert C. Maier Dipl.-Ing. (FH) -----------------------------------------------