samba - Feb 1998 - Password required for IPC$

... and another thing.  :-)

I've searched for this problem in the mailing list archives and have found
several mentions of it (or variations on it), but no definitive solution:

I've recently upgraded a happily running FreeBSD 2.2.1-R / Samba 1.9.17p2
server to FreeBSD 2.2.5-R Samba 1.9.18p2.  (I installed the Samba port from
the FreeBSD-CURRENT ports collection.)  All the clients which need to access
it are Win95 (OEMSR2).  Ever since the upgrade, whenever a client tries to
access the server, it is asked for a password for IPC$.  Users who have a
valid account on the FreeBSD server can then see the shares upon typing in
their passwords.  Users who do not, however, are stuck.

And before anyone asks - yes, the account specified in the "guest
account"
smb.conf parameter is perfectly valid.  :-)

BTW, the following works from the server itself:

$ smbclient -L localhost -U%

... and so does this:

$ smbclient -L my.fully.qualified.domain.name -U%

However, this doesn't (output included):

cornelius:~$ smbclient -L \\cornelius -U%
Added interface ip=196.25.223.161 bcast=196.25.223.175 nmask=255.255.255.240
Server time is Mon Feb 16 22:29:50 1998
Timezone is UTC+2.0
Domain=[CITYIP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 1.9.18p2]
connected as guest security=user
SMBtconX failed. ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname (Invalid network name in tree
connect.)
Perhaps you are using the wrong sharename, username or password?
Some servers insist that these be in uppercase


Trying to execute the above command gives this very succinct error message
smbd's log file:

02/16/1998 22:29:50 couldn't find service cornelius/ipc$

Help?!
-- V

Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878

I didn't see any responses to the two messages regarding this which I saw
in the last two message digests, so I thought I'd take a crack at it...

I had this problem as well (any connections to Samba server from Win95
client resulted in a prompt for password for IPC$) on a Redhat 4.2 Linux
box running 1.9.18p2. 

When I went through /etc/smb.conf, I noticed the following line:

   security = user

This was different from the way I had configured it on my Slackware box
(security = share).  Changing it from user to share security fixed my
problem.

I'm sure there's probably a more correct approach to this problem, but
my
solution happened to work fine for the 4 or 5 people who make SMB
connections to my small Linux server.

Mike
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