Hello. This is not strictly a Samba question but this is the only list I know where people know anything beyond the trivial about MS networking, and the box in question _is_ trying to access a Samba server. One of my clients has a bunch of W95 and W98 boxes happily using a Linux Samba (2.0.3) server. They have just acquired a new W98 box which can access the server using any TCP/IP service EXCEPT Samba. The problem is that the MS networking code is never loaded on the PC because the usual login dialog box is not displayed at startup. Apparently there is an option somewhere in W98 that allows a user to "cancel" logins and this results in W98 choosing to not load any of the SMB networking code. My problem is to find a way of reversing this "cancellation". It is probably a registry setting somewhere but so far, I have not been able to find out where. Any ideas? Cheers and thanks, Stephen Davies =======================================================================Stephen Davies Consulting scldad@sdc.com.au Adelaide, South Australia. Voice: 041-980 1417 Computing & Network solutions. Fax: 08-82728863
Stephen Davies wrote:> > They have just acquired a new W98 box which can access the server using any > TCP/IP service EXCEPT Samba. > > The problem is that the MS networking code is never loaded on the PC because > the usual login dialog box is not displayed at startup.Check that you have Client for Microsoft Networks installed and selected as the Windows logon, that log on to Windows NT domain is selected in the client properties, and that the WINS server in TCP/IP properties is correct, if applicable. Matt -- Matthew "Austin" Chapman SysAdmin, Developer, Samba Team Member "I have a dream... that one day, my three little children will be judged not on the quality of their character, but on the content of their code..."