samba - Sep 1999 - Installation test fails: 2.04b

I'm brand new to Samba and I am trying to set in up on our network (linux
OS). We have two windows clients: a notebook running win95 (soon to be
win98) and a virtual machine running win98. Right now, the host is running
RH 5.2 with the 2.0.36 kernel.

  Samba-2.04b was installed from the rpm. I'm using Carter and Sharpe's
"Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" as my guide. On page 59, they
suggest
testing the installation to see if the shares defined in /etc/smb.conf are
correct. Here is what I run and the results returned:

[root@salmo rshepard]# /usr/bin/smbclient -L salmo -N
Added interface ip=192.168.55.1 bcast=192.168.55.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair
in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)

  The win98 virtual machine is not running; makes no difference if it does.
I understand the words in the error message but I don't know what to do
about it.

  Can someone here please give me a nudge in the right direction?

TIA,

Rich
  
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Rich Shepard wrote:
> 
> [root@salmo rshepard]# /usr/bin/smbclient -L salmo -N
> Added interface ip=192.168.55.1 bcast=192.168.55.255 
> nmask=255.255.255.0
> session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - 
> name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup 
> are invalid.)
> 
>   The win98 virtual machine is not running; makes no 
> difference if it does. I understand the words in the 
> error message but I don't know what to do about it.
Rich,

Could you send me your smb.conf file?  I'll take a look.
Things to check right off is whether or not you have a 
valid guest account.







Cheers,
jerry
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                            Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
Engineering Network Services                           Auburn University 
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