Colin Brooks
2000-Apr-27 17:37 UTC
SUM: After upgrade to 2.0.6, Win98 users can't connect to Samba shares
Hi everybody - Yesterday, I said that my Windows 98 & 95 computers couldn't connect to my Samba shares after upgrading from version 1.9.16p9 to 2.0.6, while my NT 4.0 (SP4 & SP6) computers could, even though I had the same user names & passwords on all the machines (UNIX, Win'9x, NT). I re-read the "What's New in Samba 2.0.6" document this morning, and found the section called "NOTE: Some important option defaults changed." This said that if I had no "security= " line in the [global] section of my current smb.conf file, then I needed to add a line saying: "security=share" to get exactly the same behavior with the Samba 2.0 that I was getting with the old version of Samba. I added this line to my system, and now all my Windows computers can access the machine. In addition, users now connect to the read-only share as "guest", but connect to the read/write share with their username. So now everything is fine again. It helps when I read the documentation! Sincerely, Colin **************************************************** Colin Brooks GIS Analyst Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program (IHRMP) University of California, Berkeley Hopland Research & Extension Center (HREC) 4070 University Rd. Hopland, CA 95449 Primary #'s (at Hopland) - TEL:(707)744-1270 FAX:(707)744-1040 Secondary # (at Berkeley) - TEL: (510)643-1136 E-mail: cbrooks@nature.berkeley.edu IHRMP Homepage - http://danr.ucop.edu/ihrmp HREC homepage - http://danrrec.ucdavis.edu/hopland/home_page.html GIS homepage - http://www.pacific.net/~cbrooks/gis1.shtml ****************************************************
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