I have a samba version 2.0.7 server running on Linux that has been happily supplying public (guest) shares to six Windows 95 workstations for about 2-1/2 years. I am now trying to add two workstations running Windows 98 and I can't connect to the samba server. I can see it in the Network Neighborhood, but whenever I try to browse any shares it asks for a password. No matter what I try, I can't get it to authenticate (even thought the shares are marked as public). Any suggestions on troubleshooting will be greatly appreciated. --Richard -- Richard B. Pyne Software Engineer ShopSite, Inc.
Are you using encrypted password on Samba? Depending on how old your Windows 95 machines are, they may not require encrypted passwords. Windows 98 always does (unless you apply the registry hack, see the docs) I believe that the encryption (or lack thereof) needs to match, server to client, even if there are no passwords involved. Richard Pyne wrote:>I have a samba version 2.0.7 server running on Linux that has been happily >supplying public (guest) shares to six Windows 95 workstations for about >2-1/2 years. I am now trying to add two workstations running Windows 98 and I >can't connect to the samba server. I can see it in the Network Neighborhood, >but whenever I try to browse any shares it asks for a password. No matter >what I try, I can't get it to authenticate (even thought the shares are >marked as public). > >Any suggestions on troubleshooting will be greatly appreciated. > >--Richard >
Look in the docs/Registry directory for Win98_PlainPassword.reg and import into the win98 machines' registry. They default to encrypted passwords....which I bet you're not using since your 95 machines work fine... Bill On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Richard Pyne wrote:> I have a samba version 2.0.7 server running on Linux that has been happily > supplying public (guest) shares to six Windows 95 workstations for about > 2-1/2 years. I am now trying to add two workstations running Windows 98 and I > can't connect to the samba server. I can see it in the Network Neighborhood, > but whenever I try to browse any shares it asks for a password. No matter > what I try, I can't get it to authenticate (even thought the shares are > marked as public). > > Any suggestions on troubleshooting will be greatly appreciated. > > --Richard > > -- > Richard B. Pyne > Software Engineer > ShopSite, Inc. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
I'm in a network where we have a Windows NT 4.0 server and Windows 95 clients and my own machine with Windows 98. All of these machines can display the Linux box with Samba (2.2.3a) as another client and see shared resources, BUT WINDOWS 98 CAN'T!!! It can see the rest of machines but Linux with Samba. I trace connections with 'tcpdump' and the other machines send connections with port 137, 138 and 139; my Win98 don't. Any idea? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com