i bought the sams teach yourself Samba in 24 hours, but i still have some questions: I have few machines on network, Linux machine as server and Win98 Client machines... TCP/IP working fine... At first workgroup name = mygroup all 3 machines show up in network neighborhood, but i cannot connect to samba machine... it asks for password, but password for what user? I don't get it... it doesn't ask for user Anyway, i don't want my workgroup to be called mygroup, but instead OLDBS change win98 networking properties, change smb.conf to workgroup = OLDBS then i cannot see Linux machine... change all back to MyGroup and still cannot see Linux machine. even re-started Linux machine. Also, how do you re-start samba without re-booting? Just kill HUP inetd? Any ideas, help please? thanks Ken
Kkinva68@aol.com wrote:> > and Win98 Client machines...<snip>> > it asks for password, but password for what user? > I don't get it... it doesn't ask for userThe password for the user that Win98 thinks you are logged in as. * Make sure you have the Client for MS Network installed. * Delete all *.pwl files in \windows> Anyway, i don't want my workgroup to be > called mygroup, but instead OLDBS* Change the Win98 workgroup to OLDBS and workgroup parameterr to OLDBS * Reboot the Windows 98 clients. * Stop Samba (see below) * remove browse.dat (notmally in /usr/local/samba/var) * Restart samba> Also, how do you re-start samba without re-booting? > Just kill HUP inetd?You should kill all smbd and nmbd processes. You might want to consider runnign smbd and nmbd as daemons rather than through inetd. Easy to manage in my opinion. Feel free to send me your smb.conf if you still have problems. Cheers, jerry ________________________________________________________________________ Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter Engineering Network Services Auburn University jerry@eng.auburn.edu http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw "...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home." - Sting "Message in a Bottle" ( 1979 )