samba - Aug 1999 - What to do in Windows 95 after configuring Samba

Hello,
I'm new to Samba so sorry for this trivial question. I've configured my 
smb.conf with all the shares and enabled WINS support. I wanted to know what 
do I have to configure in my windows 95 machine. My LAN setup is - one Linux 
Red Hat 6.0 machine Pentium 166 and a windows 95 machine a 486. I've made my
Linux m/c the proxy server using Squid. Also whenever I boot my Win m/c it 
just shows me the windows login dialog box and it doesn't show a network
logon
dialog box. Why? I installed Lin Neighborhood and I can see my Linux m/c but 
not my Win m/c. I did give the WINS address in my win m/c as the IP of my 
Linux m/c but when ever I try to browse th network throuhg network 
neighborhood it gives an error msg saying can't browse network. Can anybody 
help?

Thanks,
Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeffrey Yep <jyep@MailAndNews.com>
Newsgroups: list.samba
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 7:20 AM
Subject: What to do in Windows 95 after configuring Samba

> Hello,
> I'm new to Samba so sorry for this trivial question. I've
configured my
> smb.conf with all the shares and enabled WINS support. I wanted to know
what
> do I have to configure in my windows 95 machine. My LAN setup is - one
Linux
> Red Hat 6.0 machine Pentium 166 and a windows 95 machine a 486. I've
made
my
> Linux m/c the proxy server using Squid. Also whenever I boot my Win m/c it
> just shows me the windows login dialog box and it doesn't show a
network
logon
> dialog box. Why? I installed Lin Neighborhood and I can see my Linux m/c
but
> not my Win m/c. I did give the WINS address in my win m/c as the IP of my
> Linux m/c but when ever I try to browse th network throuhg network
> neighborhood it gives an error msg saying can't browse network. Can
anybody
> help?

You must configure you win95 box exactly like you would with Windows NT. In
your smb.conf file you should set

# Browser Control Options:
    local master = yes

# OS Level (For Election)
    os level = 65 (will win no matter what, default : 32.

# Domain Master Browser.
   domain master = yes

# Preferred Master
   preferred master = yes

# Domain logon server for Windows95/98 workstations.
   domain logons = yes

Look in the man pages for a description of these field. (the last one
(domain logons) is the one you are interrested in, the other is to make you
machine the master browser).
There are other option such as storing profiles on you samba server (slow
and not useful
in a network consisting of only one Windows Client).

serge

On 25 Aug 99, at 1:46, Jeffrey Yep <jyep@MailAndNews.com> wrote:
> I'm new to Samba so sorry for this trivial question. I've
configured my
> smb.conf with all the shares and enabled WINS support. I wanted to know
> what do I have to configure in my windows 95 machine.
Make sure the workgroup is the same on both.  Name your windoze box 
(in the Identification tab of Network properties) the same as an 
account on the linux box (use this username and password to login 
below).  Yes, your login name and windoze NetBIOS will be the same, 
otherwise you have to map the names in the username map file (see the 
man page).  Make sure you have a sane guest account (e.g., nobody, 
ftp) in the smb.conf file.  Choose Network Logon as the default in 
windoze Network Properties.  Plain text passwords are the simplest, 
so set encrypted passwords to no in smb.conf, and apply the win95 reg 
hack.  You should also apply the win95 updates for TCP/IP, the 
redirector, etc.  See:

http://www.walbeehm.com/win95upd.html

Your windoze box will not show up in Network Neighborhood if you 
don't enable File & Print sharing.

You also want to set the samba/ip_masq box as the Gateway in windoze 
Network Properties.

That should do it, Steve

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Steve Arnold                     http://www.rain.org/~sarnold

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